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1828, Robert Cotton Money, Journal of a Tour in Persia, during the years 1824 & 1825, London: Teape and Son, →OCLC, page 86:They are under the guidance of a Chaoosh, or Superintendant, a most consequential personage, and generally a Seid, with a mixture of Turkish and Persian in him which no doubt adds both to his servility and insolence.
1829, Robert Mignan, Travels in Chaldaea: including a journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon, performed on foot in 1827, London: Colburn , →OCLC, page 109: one Chaoosh, (a herald, or running footman,) in the service of Aga Minas,
1851, Bernard Burke, “Lady Hester Stanhope”, in Anecdotes of the aristocracy, and episodes of ancestral story, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: E. Churton, →OCLC, page 146: she immediately resolved upon their being put to death, for which purpose she summoned to her presence the under-bailiff, Osman Chaoosh. That dignitary made his appearance accordingly in due state, bearing in his hand the silver-headed cane, which was the emblem of office, and there can be little doubt that the Chaoosh fully believed in the existence of a secret sympathy between his mistress and the horses,