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1852, Laure Prus, A residence in Algeria, London: W. Pickering, →OCLC, pages 117–118:This man is a chaouch, or executioner; […] ¶
This "chaouch" is employed in the Arab court of justice, and performs the functions of assistant to the chief of police.
1853, James Richardson, Narrative of a mission to Central Africa: performed in the Years 1850-51 under the orders of H. M. government, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 26:We had at least a hundred tongue-skirmishes between our people and the people of Mizdah—between our chaouch and the other chaouch—between our chaouch and the sheikh of the country—between every individual black and every other individual black—between our chaouch particularly and all the people of Mizdah: […]
1855 September 29, Charles Dickens, “Model officials”, in Household Words, volume 12, London: Bradbury & Evans, →OCLC, page 205:Thirdly (it ought to have been first) comes the chaouch, — a combination of beadle, policeman, drum-major, sheriff's officer, crier of the court, and chief constable — an individual who practises blind obedience, provided it does but bring him in
1880, Annie Brassey, Sunshine and storm in the East, or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople, London: Longmans, Green, →OCLC, page 80:The last grand vizier was a common chaouch, or sergeant in a line regiment. Another chaouch was presented with five hundred pounds and made colonel of a regiment, […]
1999, Blake Robinson, Between sea and Sahara: an Orientalist adventure, London, New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, translation of Une année dans le Sahel by Eugène Fromentin, published 2004, →ISBN, page 193:chaouch policeman, process server
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1809, “Etat présent de la Turquie”, in Bibliothèque britannique ou Recueil extrait des ouvrages anglais périodiques et autres, des mémoires et transactions des sociétés et académies de Grande-Bretagne, d'Asie, d'Afrique et d'Amérique , volume 40, Genève: Bibliothèque britannique, →ISSN, page 62:Avant que le vizir y prenne place, toutes les parties qui doivent paroître devant la cour sont rangées Sur deux rangs, sous la conduite d’un chaouch.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1872, Marie-Joseph Dourlens, M. Louis Veuillot et extraits de ses oeuvres, Gloires du catholicisme au XIXe siècle, Arras: V. Brunet, →OCLC, page 73:Le chaouch (c’en était un ; je l’avais pris pour un cadi à la façon dont il exerçait son autorité ; mais le cadi est le magistrat, et le chaouch n’est que l’huissier, faisant fonctions de sergent de ville), le chaouch m’indique ensuite gracieusement un vigoureux gaillard, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1882, Victor Bernard Derrécagaix, Exploration du Sahara: les deux missions du Lieutenant-Colonel Flatters, Paris: Société de Géographie, →OCLC, page 20:[…] en marchant toujours à l’ouest, à Hassi Hofrat Chaouch, où devait passer à son tour, quelques jours plus tard, M. l’ingénieur Choisy.¶
Hofrat Chaouch, le «trou du chaouch,» doit son nom à un de ces événements tragiques, si communs dans le Sahara, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1883, Armand Lacour, “La marine de la régence d'Alger avant la conquêste”, in Revue maritime et coloniale, volume 76, quoted in La marine de la régence d'Alger avant la conquêste, Algérie, volume 3, number 5, Paris: Berger-Levrault, published 1883, →OCLC, page 639:Chaouch musulman et Chaouch juif ― Ils procédaient à la liquidation, sous les ordres et la surveillance du Khodjet-el-Bandjek, ou chef du service administratif des courses. Le chaouch juif, dont la mission consistait à faciliter les relations avec les changeurs et brocanteurs israélites, ne recevait que moitié de la quotité attribuée, sur le produit de la liquidation, au chaouch musulman.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1925, Ferdinand Duchêne, Au pied des monts éternels: roman berbère, Paris: A. Michel, →OCLC, page 162:Causant avec le chaouch au coin de la grande porte largement ouverte, il examinait l’assistance. Il n’y aperçut pas ses adversaires. Le chaouch ne se rappelait pas les avoir vus.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2013, Mustapha Yalaoui, La manipulation : roman, Paris: l'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 21:C’est Cheikh M’Barek, le chaouch de la mairie, qui me l’a dit : il est parti ce matin, très tôt, avant la prière de l’aube.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun: "sergeant, noncommissioned officer" (police, gendarmery)
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1903 March 10, “La séance du 10 Mars 1903 a la Chambre Française”, in Manifestations franco-anglo-italiennes: pour l'Arménie et la Macédoine, Paris: Société nouvelle de librairie & d'édition, published 1904, →OCLC, page 87:
1910, Achille Jean Guillaume, Conquête du Sud-Oranais. la colonne d'Igli en 1900, Paris: H. Charles-Lavauzelle, →OCLC, page 224:
Noun: "sergeant, noncommissioned officer" (Ottoman military)
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1918, Albert Dauzat, L'argot de la guerre, Paris: A. Colin, →OCLC, page 218:Aux mots arabes déjà cités1, ajoutons quelques locutions et termes comme fatma femme (d’après un prénom arabe), arroua-mena, viens ici, balek va-t’en, moukala revolver (arabe mekah’la, fusil), chaouch, sous-officier.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun: "sergeant, noncommissioned officer" (Tunisian military)
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1888, Auguste Sebaut, editor, Dictionnaire de la législation tunisienne: renfermant en outre des lois, décrets et arrêtés publiés par le Journal officiel tunisien , Paris: Marchal et Billard, →OCLC, page 223:12 chaban 1302 (26 mai 1885)
Décret constituant des oudjaks à Sfax, le Kef, Kairouan, Gafsa, Nebeul et Sousse
LOUANGES A DIEU
Art. 1er — Des oudjaks seront constitués à Sfax, le Kef, Kairouan, Gafsa, Nebeul, et Sousse ils comprendront:
1 bach chaouch;
3 chaouchs;
24 spahis.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun: "" (Algeria)
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1999 February 8, Ambroise Queffélec, Yacine Derradji, Valéry Debov, Dalila Smaali-Dekdouk, Yasmina Cherrad-Benchefra, quoting quotee, El Acil, quoted in "chaouch", Le français en Algérie, Lexique et dynamique des langues, Bruxelles: Duculot, published 2002, →ISBN, page 234:
2001 November 1, Ali Ghanem, “Mohamed Harbi au quotidien d'oran”, in algeria-watch.org, Berlin: Algeria-Watch e.V., archived from the original on 2002-06-21:[…] était-il méprisant à l’égard de certains militants dont il ne partageait pas toutes les options, les traitant de pachas, de chaouchs ? Il avait même irrité Boudiaf. ("Moi un chaouch ?" fulminait Boudiaf de sa voix sourde et tranchante. "Ce derviche me le paiera !").- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun: "service industry worker" (Morocco)
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1986, Abdelhak Serhane, Les enfants des rues étroites, Paris: Seuil, →ISBN, page 58:Et même si vous réussissez, quel emploi vous confierait-on ? Portier ou chaouch.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1990, Farida Elhany Mourad, Faîtes parler le cadavre, Casablanca: Eddar El Beida, →OCLC, page 193:Dans de nombreuses administrations, privées ou publiques, on voit les chaouchs avoir la charge de préparer du thé, du café- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2014 January 30, Lu 974 fois (pseud.), “Télégramme”, in L'Opinion, Rabat: L'Opinion, archived from the original on 2015-04-25:Du chaouch qui ne chasse plus les mouches, depuis qu’il navigue sur son smartphone, aux chefs de service qui ne trouvent pas que c’est un vice que de se sucrer avec l’argent du citoyen qui a les moyens de se payer la rachoua, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun: "service industry worker" (Tunisia)
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Noun: "assistant, orderly"
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1882 February 15, “Les interprètes civils en Algérie”, in Revue des deux mondes, volume 49, Paris: Société de la Revue des deux mondes, →OCLC, page 925:Cet agent doit être capable d’écrire quelques lignes d’arabe et de français, comme les chaouch des contributions et du domaine, de manière à pouvoir traduire succinctement, guide-âne en main, les exploits d’huissier et les lettres de convocation, comme aussi à donner une idée au juge de paix de ce que contiennent les rapports des chefs indigènes.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1893, Narcisse Faucon, La Tunisie avant et depuis l'occupation française, histoire et colonisation, Paris: A. Challamel, →OCLC, page 134:Lorsque l’armée devait se mettre en route, les Turcs déployaient une pompe royale. Mohammed Ben-Abi-el-Raïni-el-Kaïrouani décrivait ainsi celte solennité en 1681 : « D’abord les chaouch, qui font ici l’office de crieurs, montent à cheval, parcourent les rues pour annoncer le prochain départ, […] » - (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1922, Pierre Jean André, L'Islam et les races, volume 2, Paris: P. Geuthner, →OCLC, page 29:Enfin les chaouch et rokkab sont des plantons, des émissaires, chargés des commissions du moqaddem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Proper noun: "a cultivar of vinifera grape"
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1895 December, Bulletin de la société d'horticulture du Doubs, volume 39, number nouvelle série 60, Saint-Vit: Tranchart, →OCLC, page 455:Dans la Revue de Viticulture, M. Jurie signale la fécondation artificielle comme remède à la coulure.¶
Ayant remarqué que sur deux pieds de chaouch, plant très coulard, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2001, Alain Huetz de Lemps, Boissons et civilisations en Afrique, Grappes et millésimes, Pessac: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, →ISBN, page 311:[…] d’autres venus d’Orient, apportés par les Arabes comme le fayoumi ou par les Turcs comme le chaouch ou le khalili, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2012, Alain Reynier, Manuel de viticulture, 11th edition, Paris: Lavoisier, →ISBN, page 140:L’allogamie est obligatoire chez les cépages femelles (ohanes, madeleine angevine, chaouch, olivette blanche) qui doivent vivre à proximité des cépages portant des étamines, de préférence hermaphrodites;- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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