Also elchi, eltchi. [Turk. īlchī, ‘from īl a (nomad) tribe, hence the representative of the īl’ (Y.).] An ambassador.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 64. So well described by an English Elchee.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, I. viii. 113. The great Eltchi [Sir Stratford Canning].
