Now rare. Also 7 sultan(n)esse. [f. SULTAN sb. + -ESS1.]
1. = SULTANA 1.
1611. Cotgr., Sultane,… a Sultannesse; or soueraigne Princesse.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, III. ix. 240, marg. The Letters of the Great Turke to the Queene, and of the Sultannesse.
1670. Lond. Gaz., No. 546/3. The differences between him and the Sultaness his Mother.
1776. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 114/1. The first and favourite sultaness of the Grand Signior.
1837. Hood, Desert-Born, 111. I begg’d the turban’d Sultaness the issue to forbear.
b. attrib.: sultaness mother = sultana-mother.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, II. 208. A Royal Mosque, built, and endowed by the Sultaness-Mother.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 475. She is called asaki sultaness, that is to say sultaness-mother.
† 2. = SULTANIN. Obs.
1643. Howell, Twelve Treat. (1661), 286. They know the bottom of their servitude by paying so many Sultanesses for every head.
