Citations:chaus
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English citations of chaus
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- 1902, William F. Sinclair, “Narrative of my journey from India to Italy”, in Donald William Ferguson, editor, The travels of Pedro Teixeira: with his "Kings of Harmuz" and extracts from his "Kings of Persia", Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, number 9, London: Hakluyt Society, translation of original by Pedro Teixeira, →OCLC, page 150:
- At that time there were in the island a chaús and a saniaco.1
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[editor's note] 1 […] Chawúsh and kawás are now well-known words in Europe, and would need little remark here, were it not that it is not quite clear which is represented by Teixeira's "chaús." Probably it is the former. Our author's contemporary, Ben Jonson, records (in The Alchemist) how one of these gentlemen introduced a new word for cheating into the English language. The Chawúsh, moreover, is the other's superior in rank and roguery—less of an orderly and more of a bailiff—yet not of such rank that his mission to the Signory was any better than one of the covert insults dear to the Asian diplomatist.