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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gr. archæol., a vase similar in form to the oinochoë, but larger, used to dip the mixed wine and water from the crater in order to fill the smaller pouring-vessels.
- noun An ancient Attic measure of capacity, containing 12 cotyles or the twelfth part of a metretes, and equivalent to 3.283 liters, or 2.8 quarts. The chous was the equivalent of the Roman congius.
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Examples
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Actually I found chou-chous in the neighbor´s yard.
Archive 2007-05-01 Meera 2007
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Actually I found chou-chous in the neighbor´s yard.
Pictures as promised! Meera 2007
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To think of little chou-chous being objectified like that is very worrisome.
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Et moi, hier, faisant un récapitulatif sur le pluriel des noms: “alors les noms en -ou, ça fait -oux au pluriel, et il y des exceptions: les chous, les bijous”
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Et moi, hier, faisant un récapitulatif sur le pluriel des noms: “alors les noms en -ou, ça fait -oux au pluriel, et il y des exceptions: les chous, les bijous”
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We who are for our parts set in the confines of both worlds, visible and invisible; we in whose very nature both meet, unite, and touch one another, and are as it were comparted together; we who are of a nature partly visible, partly invisible, partly flesh and partly spirit, or as the language of Plato's school was, Nous chous, mind and dust united into one compound; surely we should not be partial in our judgment of this case.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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Its capital city was Persepolis, near the modern city of Schiraz.] [Footnote 430: The capital of Macedonia, Alexander's native city.] [Footnote 431: [Greek: chous] χοῦς a liquid measure containing 12
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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