Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavass
Literary usage of Cavass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turkey and Its Destiny: The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to by Charles Mac Farlane (1850)
"The money you would have to pay to the cavass will clear half our expenses on the
... If you take a cavass of the Pasha's, none of the country people in the ..."
2. Turkey: Being Sketches from Life by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (1877)
"A cavass is a sort of body-guard or man-at-arms off duty, who is the indispensable
... I have a cavass, therefore, because I am an official personage. ..."
3. Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia, and Along the Southern by Richard Wilbraham (1839)
"Armenian Quarters — Signs of Winter—Town of Kara — Wretched Quarters—Russian
Vice-Consul—Turkish cavass —American Scene—Pass of ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1893)
"If it had only been Lord cavass." " I might have slain him before this," was ...
Let me break it to you gently, Julie; I cannot do with Lord cavass at any ..."
5. Studies in the History of Venice by Horatio Forbes Brown (1907)
""Most Serene Prince," writes Bernardo to the doge and Senate, " some days ago a
cavass, obeying orders from the pashas assembled in divan, came to my house. ..."
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