choush

• enPR: choush, IPA^(key): /tʃaʊʃ/
• Hyphenation: choush

choush (plural choushes) (obsolete)

1. Pronunciation spelling of chiaus. [from 19th c.]
   • 1874, Baker, Samuel W., 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 858261921, 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:choush.

• "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.

• shochu, shōchū