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sultana
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sultana \Sul*ta"na\, n. [It.] The wife of a sultan; a sultaness. pl. A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird (Zo["o]l.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule .
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The sultana is a "white" (pale green), oval seedless grape variety also called the sultanina , Thompson Seedless (United States), Lady de Coverly (England), and oval-fruited Kishmish ( Iran , Turkey , Palestine ). It is assumed to originate from the Asian ...
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n. pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine dried seedless grape [syn: seedless raisin ]
Usage examples of sultana.
Constantinople, where Gentile Bellini painted the portrait of the Sultan and the Sultana his mother, now in the British Museum.
Sultana and raisin jars were thoroughly shaken and stirred, and the flour bins raked with a fork.
It was her who planted the bomb that sank Marseilles, and her what strangled the poor Sultana of Palau Pinang.
The sultan of Gazna had declared war against the dynasty of the Bowides, the sovereigns of the western Persia: he was disarmed by an epistle of the sultana mother, and delayed his invasion till the manhood of her son.
The drapes were open on a wide view of the Vorbarr Sultana city-scape, sweeping down to the ancient buildings and the river that bisected the capital's heart.
I’d made such progress by the time he finally caught me at it that he sought to arrange for lessons for me the next time we planeted on Sultana, which was a regular port on our trade route.
There are rather more accounts of the explosion that occurred on the second Friday of the cooking process, which caused red-hot short-crust pastry to scythe across a large part of Ankh-Morpork and accounted for the occasional shower of sultanas and deep-frozen baked apple for some days afterwards.
So does my grocer stigmatize me when I complain of the quality of his sultanas, and he answers in one breath that they are the best sultanas, and how can I expect the best sultanas at that price?
The Governor, who often drank in secret with his favorite Sultanas the wines of Greece and Shiraz, never in public drank anything but water.
Very soon the Sultanas, hearing the sound of the dance, and finding their guards withdrawn, came into the hall and mixed with the dancers.
Each of the Sultans, Sultanas, and Sultanons retired to meditation has one like it.
Only watch out for the sultanas, on account of I've had `em in the cupboard since 1932.