Chiaus

See also: chiaus

English

Noun

Chiaus (plural Chiauses)

  1. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of chiaus
    • 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:
      The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiaus.
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