Chal.

abbreviation for

One to kill the Turkish Agha of Chal, and the other to kill the man who killed my brother, and who is now in your gendarmerie!

The chal fought the engro, brother, in the old Roman fashion.

No gypsy ever uses chal or engro as a separate word, or talks of the dukkering dook or of penning a dukkerin.

Then, with both hands he turned her head in our direction, and clucking with his tongue, he cried "Chal!"

Unchallenged, un-chal′enjd, adj. not challenged or called in question.

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