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
- light pen
- light pollution
- lightproof
- light railway
- light reaction
- light rum
- lights
- lightsaber
- lightsabre
- light scoop
- light-sensitive
- lightship
- light show
- light-skinned
- lightsome
- lightsomely
- lightsomeness
- lights out
- light speed
- light stick
- light switch
- light table
- light the fuse
- light the (or a) fuse
- light-toned