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Chauses
Chauses
See also: chauses
English
Noun
Chauses pl (obsolete)
- plural of Chause
- 1615, John F. Stanford, Charles A. M. Fennell, editor, quoting George Sandys, A relation of a journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Fovre bookes. containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, OCLC 583124224, page 238:
- Of the other Iemoglans some come to the Chauses; who go on Embassies, execute Commandements, […]
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Chauses.
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