Citations:choush

English citations of choush

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• 1874, Samuel W. Baker, Ismailïa: a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade: organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, volume 2, London: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 299:

  The other bodies were those of the choush that had fallen by my side, and the soldier who had been shot on the parapet.

• 1882, Ernest Ayscoghe Floye, Unexplored Balūchistan, London: Griffith & Farran, →OCLC, pages 44–45:

  Our ancient shikarri Jellāl had, it appeared, married the daughter of the Mīr's choush (or head man) and the two men immediately struck up a friendship, the choush (Keramshah) being very useful in expelling the crowd from the tent while the walls were being fastened up.

• 1921, C. Leonard Woolley, editor, From Kastamuni to Kedos: being a record of experiences of prisoners of war in Turkey, 1916–1918, Oxford: B. Blackwell, →OCLC, page 16:

  He's given orders to the "choush."