chotei (chota)

[Chino-Jap. (= Chin. chao ting ), lit. morning hall (in allusion to the custom of ministers having audience with their sovereign in the morning), Chouan (shö'an; F. pron. shö-on'), n. [F., after the nickname of Jean Cotter eau, the original leader of the party. Chouan (dial, chouhan, chauhan, etc.; now corruptly chat - huant, as if 'hooting cat') means 'screech-owl'; cf. OF. choue, a daw, > dim. chouette, > E. chewet: see chewet2 and chough.] A member of a body of insurgent royalists of Britt any and the west of France, consisting almost entirely of peasants, who rose in 1792 against the French republic, and carried on a guerrilla warfare of great bitterne . They were not repre ed till 1800, and even after that occasional insurrections occurred down to the first years of the reign of Louis Philippe (1830-48). Chouannerie (shö-an'e-rē; F. pron. shö-on-re'), n. [F.,