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Sultanas

From: GTP10@phx.cam.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 18:13:41 BST
Subject: Sultanas
To: Love-Hounds@uunet.UU.NET

Sultana is in pretty common usage in UK English:
  Its primary meaning: a dried white grape (dried red grapes are raisins).
  Its secondary meaning: the wife/partner of a sultan.
 
Geoff Parks