Chauk

Some time after the wedding the bride is taken to her husband's house to live with him, and on this occasion a simple ceremony known as Chauk or Pathoni is performed.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

[FN#317] The writer means the great Bazar, the Indian "Chauk," which = our English Carfax or Carfex (Carrefour) and forms the core of ancient cities in the East.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Between 1886 and 1963, the Myanmar's oil industry was dominated by Burmah Oil Company (BOC), which discovered the Ychaugyaung field in 1887 and the Chauk field in 1902.

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"It is common on feast days for a procession to begin at the Church of San Lorenzo with a mass for Christ the Sun God and his mother the Moon Goddess, and then proceed to a nearby hill for the veneration of ancestors and Maya gods, including Chauk, an earth and water deity."

Rituals of the Modern Maya 1997

Chauk, thus adding one more to the many valuable services he had rendered throughout the siege.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Chauk, the long main street with all its curious buildings and crowds and countless tributary alleys, every one of which is the East crystallised, every one of which has its white walls, its decorative doorways, its loiterers, its beggars, its artificers, and its defiance of the bogey, Progress.

Roving East and Roving West 1903

From the Chauk one may pass through the Queen's Gardens and Road to the opening in the wall where the Kábul Gate once stood and so leave the City.

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894

A narrow street called the Daríba leads from the Jama Masjid to the wide Chándní (Silver) Chauk.

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894

[FN#78] "I will hire thee a shop in the Chauk" -- Carfax or market-street says the H.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855