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Definition of Chiauses
1. chiaus [n] - See also: chiaus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiauses
Literary usage of Chiauses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... being ledde and clothed with coverings of Cloth of Gold: of these there were
at the least one hundred. Then came chiauses on ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Next the Kings Grey-hounds, being ledde and clothed with coverings of Cloth of
Gold: of these there were at the least one hundred. Then came chiauses on ..."
3. Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant by Thomas Dallam, John Covel, James Theodore Bent (1893)
"Two chiauses (which by order waited upon my Ld. from ... Round about us stood
many chiauses and other attendants. ..."
4. Sixty Curious and Authentic Narratives and Anecdotes Respecting by William Hone (1819)
"When in this crisis (for had he sat but a quarter of an hour longer, the guns
had been fired, and he had been acknowledged sovereign) one of the chiauses, ..."
5. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"... with four armed officers by the sides of his horse, and twenty chiauses, with
staffs and silver apples on them, in front, while two domestics scattered ..."
6. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"Brandishing his sabre he declared how he would govern, what powers should feel
his wrath, and what glory attend his reign, when one of the chiauses, ..."
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