1797 September, “Injustice detected and punished”, in The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure[…][1], volume 101, London: W. Bent, →ISSN, page 187:
[…] beckoned to a chiaoux, or minister of justice:[…]
1827, The Arabian nights' entertainments, embellished with nearly one hundred engravings, new, carefully revised and corrected edition, London: printed by J. Limbird, page 436:
The sultan consented with pleasure, rose up immediately, and as it was not far off, went thither on foot, with Aladdin on his right hand, the grand vizier on his left, preceded by the chiaoux and principal officers of his palace, and followed by all the great lords of his court.
Upon the road they bribed the chiaoux who had him in charge, […]
1854, William Marsden, edited by Thomas Wright, The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian : the translation of Marsden revised, with a selection of his notes, London: H. Bohn, translation of original by Marco Polo, →OCLC, page 211:
The chiaoux of the Turkish or Ottoman court perform duties analogous to those of the huissiers in France.
1901, William F. Fleming, The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version, säns soucï edition, volume 20, Akron,OH: Werner, translation of original by Voltaire, published 1905, →OCLC, page 290:
A capigi pasha, with six chiaoux, came to attend him from the castle of Démirtash, where he had resided for some days past.
1775, Voltaire, Questions sur L'Encyclopédie, par des amateurs, volume 5, Oeuvres de M. de Voltaire, volume 29, [s.l.]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 59:
Que direz-vous d’un petit chiaoux, qui, en vuidant la chaiſe percée de notre ſultan, s’écrierait; à la plus grande gloire de notre invincible monarque? il y a certainement plus loin du ſultan à DIEU, que du ſultan au petit chiaoux.
1778, Nicolas-Toussaint Des Essarts, Essai sur l'histoire générale des tribunaux des peuples tant anciens que modernes ou Dictionnaire historique et judiciaire, contenant les anecdotes piquates & jugemens fameux des tribunaux de tous les temps & de toutes les nations, volume 1, Paris: L'auteur [etc.], →OCLC, page 123:
Un chiaoux ſut envoyé auſſi-tôt pour ouvrir les portes, cet officier ayant été conduit dans le fouterrein trouva deux femmes mortes, &C les deux autres mourantes;[…]
1881, Charles Barbier de Meynard, “چاوش tchaouch”, in Dictionnaire turc-français: supplément aux dictionnaires publiés jusqu'à ce jour, volume 1, Paris: Ernest Leroux, →OCLC, pages 573–574:
چاوش tchaouch, (le chiaoux des anciens voyageurs français) huissier, appariteur, etc. — Sous l’ancienne administration, plusieurs fonctionnaires portaient ce nom.
1888, Valtazar Bogišić, Acta coniurationem Petri a Zrinio et Francisci de Frankopan nec non Francisci Nadasdy illustrantia (1663-1671), e tabulariis Gallicis desumpta, Monumenta spectāntia historiam Slavorum meridionalium, volume 19 (overall work in Serbo-Croatian, French, and Italian), Zagreb: Academia Scientiarum et Artium Slavorum Meridionalum, →OCLC, page 198:
Il est arrivé depuis quelques jours un chiaoux Turc, depesché par le Bassa de Bude,[…]Ledit chiaoux s’est laissé entendre que le Grand Seigneur auoit changé de pensée d’aller aux bains de Natolie,[…]