sultana
/sʌlˈtɑːnə
/noun
1British A small, light brown, seedless raisin used in foods such as puddings and cakes: [as modifier]: a sultana cake...
- A few varieties are grown to produce raisins, sultanas, and currants.
- Soak the saffron and raisins or sultanas in 2 tbsp boiling water and set aside.
- See also currants, lexias, muscatels, sultanas, and raisins for specific sorts of dried grape.
2A wife or concubine of a sultan.When al-Musta'sim, the Abbasid caliph, opposed her reign, the sultana abdicated and married Aybek....
- From this point onward, the future sultana steadily gained influence in the sultan's eyes.
- For example, in order to control her second husband, the sultana had to kill him.
2.1Any other woman in a sultan’s family.
Origin
Late 16th century (in sense 2): from Italian, feminine of sultano (see sultan). sense 1 dates from the mid 19th century.
Rhymes
- Port Petrovsk
- portpiece
- Port Pirie
- portrait
- portrait bust
- portrait collar
- portrait gallery
- portraiting
- portraitist
- portrait lathe
- portrait lens
- portrait-like
- portrait neckline
- portrait painting
- portrait parle
- portrait parlé
- portrait ring
- portrait statue
- portrait stone
- portraiture
- portray
- portrayable
- portrayal
- portrayer
- portrayist