Chapter Charles Edward [Stuart] to Cheap Jack of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Château en Espagne. (See Castle In The Air, p. 186.)

Chatookee, an Indian bird that never drinks at a stream, but catches the rain-drops in falling.—Period. Account of the Baptist Missionaries, ii. 309.

Less pure than these is that strange Indian bird,
Who never dips in earthly stream her bill,
But, when the sound of coming showers is heard,
Looks up, and from the clouds receives her fill.
   —Southey: Curse of Kehama, xxi. 6 (1809).

Chattanach (M‘Gillie), chief of the clan Chattan.—Sir W. Scott: Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

Chatterley (Rev. Simon), “the man of religion” at the Spa, one of the managing committe.—Sir W. Scott: St. Ronan’s Well (time, George III.).

Chaubert (Mons.), Master Chiffinch’s cook.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Chaucer of France, Clément Marot (1484–1544).

Chaunus. Arrogance personified in The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). “Fondly himself with praising he dispraised.” Fully described in canto viii. (Greek, chaunos, “vain.”)

Chauvinism, a blind idolatry of Napoleon I. Now it is applied to a blind idolatry of France and Frenchmen. A chauvin is the person who idolizes. The word is taken from “Chauvin” in Scribe’s Soldat Laboureur, a veteran soldier of the first empire, whose admiration of Napoleon was unbounded, and who honoured even “the shadow of his shoe-tie.”

Such is the theme on which French chauvinism is inexhaustible.—Times, 1871.

Cheap as the Sardinians (Latin). The reference is to the vast crowds of Sardinian prisoners and slaves brought to Rome by Tiberius Gracchus.

Cheap Jack means market Jack or Jack the chapman. (Anglo-Saxon, chepe, “a market,” hence Cheap- side.)