▪ I. † sultane Obs.
Also 7 sultain(e, 7–8 sultan.
[ad. F. sultane (Cotgr., 1611), fem. of sultan (see sultan). Cf. sultana.]
1. = sultana 1.
| 1660 F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 79 The King..gave them great commands in his Army,..one of them married the Sultane of Bisnegar. 1694 Lond. Gaz. No. 2986/2 The Grand Signior and all the Sultanes coming to the Wedding. |
2. = sultanin.
| 1612 Jas. I Proclam. conc. Bringing of Gold etc. into the Realm 14 May, For Sultaines being xxiij. Carrots, i. graine fine, at least the ounce. iij.li. viij.s. viij.d. 1613 T. Milles tr. Mexia's etc. Treas. Anc. & Mod. T. I. 768/2 A Sultain of Gold. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vii. 301 Fiue Sultans of gold..amounting to thirty fiue shillings sterling. 1704 J. Pitts Acc. Moham. vii. 91 A Sultane, i.e. nine or ten Shilling. |
3. A rich gown trimmed with buttons and loops, fashionable in the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
| 1689 Lond. Gaz. No. 2498/4 A black Sultan with gold buttons and loops. 1690 Evelyn Mund. Mul. 2 Nor demy Sultane, Spagnolet, Nor Fringe to sweep the Mall forget. 1732 Gay Distress'd Wife v. vii, My Lady will travel in her Sultane, I suppose. 1798 C. Smith Yng. Philos. I. 183 Her muslin Sultane. |
4. A Turkish war-vessel.
| 1695 Lond. Gaz. No. 3128/1 Two of the Enemies Ships, called Sultanes, were sunk. 1711 Ibid. No. 4940/1 All the Fleet is return'd.., except six Sultans and two Gallies remaining with the Captain-Basha. |
5. A sofa, settee. (Cf. ottoman n.2)
| 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus xxvi, I shall have an excuse to squeeze into the Sultane which is so ‘happy as to bear the weight of Beaufort.’ |
▪ II. sultane
obs. form of sultan.