chiaus

plural chiauses · alternative obsolete Chaoosh · alternative obsolete chaoosh · alternative obsolete Chaoush · alternative obsolete chaoush · alternative obsolete chaoux · alternative obsolete Chaus · alternative obsolete chaus · alternative obsolete chaush · alternative obsolete chawush · alternative obsolete chiaous · alternative obsolete chiause · alternative obsolete chiaush · alternative obsolete Chiauss · alternative obsolete chiauss · alternative obsolete Chiaux

1. historicalAn Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
2. historicalAn Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).
3. obsoleteObsolete spelling of chouse (“a swindler”).

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   Dap. And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good courthand more, If discover. What do you think of me, That I am a chiaus? Face. What’s that? Dap. The Turk was, here― As one would say, do you think I am a Turk? Face. I’ll tell the doctor so. Dap. Do, good sweet captain.

   1610, Ben Jonson, “The alchemist”, in Charles W. Eliot, editor, Elizabethan Drama, The Harvard classics, volume 47, part 2, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, published 1910, →OCLC, page 552

present singular third person chiauses · participle present chiausing · participle past chiaused · past chiaused · alternative obsolete Chaoosh · alternative obsolete chaoosh · alternative obsolete Chaoush · alternative obsolete chaoush · alternative obsolete chaoux · alternative obsolete Chaus · alternative obsolete chaus · alternative obsolete chaush · alternative obsolete chawush · alternative obsolete chiaous · alternative obsolete chiause · alternative obsolete chiaush

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of chouse (“cheat, trick, swindle”).

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   The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:[…]

   1893, Mynors Bright, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, editors, The diary of Samuel Pepys, for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, volume 5, New York: G. E. Groscup, →OCLC, pages 117–118, note 2

plural Chiauses

1. historicalAlternative letter-case form of chiaus.

   The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants

   1741, John F. Stanford, quoting John Ozell, translator, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, A Voyage into the Levant: perform'd by command of the late French King, volume 2, quoted in "chiaus, chaus(e), chouse, chaoush", The Stanford dictionary of anglicised words and phrases, Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, published 1892, →OCLC, page 238