chiaux

See also: Chiaux

English

Alternative forms

• chaoux (obsolete)
• chiaoux (obsolete)

Etymology

a. 1670, from French chiaux.

Noun

chiaux

2. Obsolete spelling of chiaus. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1670 August 23, Joseph George Muddiman, anonymous quotee, [newsletter], quoted in A history of English journalism to the foundation of the Gazette, London, New York: Longmans, Green, published 1908, →OCLC, page 213:

     The Venice let^rs da^t 15th tells us that the Grand Segn^r was at Adrianople and had sent a hye chiaux to y^e vizer of Candea to attend him, who upon y^e mesage immediately left Candea havinge by his severitie of impayling them that abused y^e Venechanes […]

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References

• “chiaux”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• "Chiaus" in A New English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893, volume 2, p. 334.
• "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush" in John F. Stanford, Charles A. M. Fennell, editor, The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, 1892, pages 238–239. →OCLC.

French

Noun

chiaux m (plural chiaux)

1. Obsolete form of chiaoux.
   • 1580, Description de toute l'isle de Cypre: et des roys, princes et seigneurs, tant payens que chrestiens qui ont commandé en icelle […] , Famagouste, CY: Editions l'Oiseau, translation of original by Steffano Lusignano, published 1968, →OCLC, page after 257:

     […] Mustapha Bassa despesche deux Chiaux en grande diligence, […]

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