sultaness

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English soudanesse,[1] surface analysis sultan +‎ -ess.

Noun

sultaness (plural sultanesses)

  1. A sultana (female relative of a sultan).

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sultana”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sultaness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)