cavass

The man in gold, armed to the teeth, is what is called a cavass, and these swells behind are the representatives, male or female, of some foreign potentate, taking a walk.

Sketches From My Life Pasha, Hobart 1887

Two exciting days were spent exploring the city in a landau, protected by my son, a dragoman, the coachman, and a "cavass," a superbly uniformed native soldier lent me by our minister, Mr. Terrell, from the American legation.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

So I've justed wasted more than an hour playing around; redrawing myself in charcoal and ink, turning myself into stained glass, pouring myself onto cavass.

Redrawing Myself Sharon Bakar 2004

So I've justed wasted more than an hour playing around; redrawing myself in charcoal and ink, turning myself into stained glass, pouring myself onto cavass.

Archive 2004-09-01 Sharon Bakar 2004

But, I was getting pretty cold and had a big pair of leather gloves and some cavass gloves inside of them but, anyway, I got scared about that thing and I thought this ain't gonna do and I looked down

Oral History Interview with Clay East, September 22, 1973. Interview E-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1973

The _cavass_ in charge of the servants was beginning to be fussy, in fear that while we were dawdling about the one train might come and go, and the _sitts_ and _effendis_ be left to the limited accommodations of Aïasulouk for the night.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

At last we saw lights approaching, and another cavass (belonging to our excellent consul) appeared with lots of lanterns and men "with staves and swords," as becometh a Levantine consul, and, escorted by these, we walked a long way over the rough, slippery paving-stones before we reached the Armenian and Greek quarters.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

British merchant then residing at Mosul, my cavass, and a servant.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

Attended by the _cavass_ [4] of the Swedish Embassy, old Ali, I drove down to the quay on a fresh, sunny October morning, loaded all my boxes on board a _caique_, and was rowed by four men out to the Bosporus between anchored sailing vessels, steamers, and yachts.

From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

They reckon their ancestry from the mother, and when my Cretan cavass, Hadji Houssein, spoke of his home, it was always as his “mother's house.”

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901