Chauses

Chauses

1. plural of Chaus
   • 1615, John F. Stanford, quoting George Sandys, edited by Charles A. M. Fennell, 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, page 238:

     Of the other Iemoglans some come to the Chauses; who go on Embassies, execute Commandements, […]

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• chausse, chaussé