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, trans. 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.
1619. T. Milles, trans. Meria’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. Mohammetans, 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. Charlotte 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. Ibid. (1711), 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 sb.2)
1803. Jane Porter, Thaddeus, xxvi. I shall have an excuse to squeeze into the Sultane which is so ‘happy as to bear the weight of Beaufort.’
