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sultaness Now rare.|ˈsʌltənɪs|
Also 7 sultan(n)esse.
[f. sultan n. + -ess1.]
1. = sultana 1.
1611Cotgr., Sultane,..a Sultannesse; or soueraigne Princesse. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iii. ix. 240 marg., The Letters of the Great Turke to the Queene, and of the Sultannesse. 1670Lond. Gaz. No. 546/3 The differences between him and the Sultaness his Mother. 1776Chron. in Ann. Reg. 114/1 The first and favourite sultaness of the Grand Signior. 1837Hood Desert-Born 111, I begg'd the turban'd Sultaness the issue to forbear.
b. attrib.: sultaness mother = sultana-mother.
1682Wheler Journ. Greece ii. 208 A Royal Mosque, built, and endowed by the Sultaness-Mother. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 475 She is called asaki sultaness, that is to say sultaness-mother.
†2. = sultanin. Obs.
1643Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 286 They know the bottom of their servitude by paying so many Sultanesses for every head. |