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See also: chawushes

Chawushes (archaic)

(historical) plural of Chawush ‎(“chiaus”)
- 1889 October, Tyrrell, Frank H., “The Turkish army of the olden time”, in The Asiatic Quarterly Review, volume 8, London: T. Fisher Unwin, OCLC 682015238, page 403:
  The Sultan's Household troops formed a class apart; for though connected with the standing army, they were looked on more as a department of the Court than a division of the army. […] The Imperial Chawushes (sergeants) were a similar body, four or five hundred strong. In time of war they acted as guides to the army, marechaux-de-camp, provosts and gallopers; in time of peace as messengers and ushers of the Court.
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See also: Chawushes

chawushes (archaic)

(historical) plural of chawush ‎(“chiaus”)
- 1968, Ödön Schütz, editor, An Armeno-Kipchak chronicle on the Polish-Turkish wars in 1620-1621, Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 11, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, OCLC 582036615, page 41:
  On Friday, 1 January 1620 there came chawushes from the Sultan of Turkey and went from Kamenets to Warsaw.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chawushes.