choush
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English
Pronunciation
Noun
choush (plural choushes)
- (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of chiaus.
- 1874, Samuel W. Baker, Ismailïa: a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade: organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, volume 2, London: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 299:
- The other bodies were those of the choush that had fallen by my side, and the soldier who had been shot on the parapet.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:choush.
References
- "Chiaus" in A New English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893, volume 2, p. 334.
- “chiaus, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
