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The sultana is a " white " ( pale green ), oval seedless grape variety also called the sultanina, oval-fruited Kishmish, Lady de Coverly ( England ), and Thompson Seedless ( United States ).
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A feminine form, used by Westerners, is sultana or sultanah ; the very styling misconstrues the roles of wives of sultans.
In the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada the word " raisin " is reserved for the dried large dark grape, with " sultana " being a dried large white grape, and " currant " being a dried small Black Corinth grape.
Raisin bran ( sultana bran in some countries ) is a breakfast cereal manufactured by several companies under a variety of brand names, including Kellogg's Raisin Bran ; General Mills ' Total Raisin Bran, a variant by General Mills called Raisin Nut Bran ; and Ralcorp's Post Raisin Bran.
In some countries, especially Commonwealth countries, it is also the name given to the raisin made from it ; such sultana raisins are often called simply sultanas or sultanis.
Sometimes, the name " sultana " is applied to all raisins, to the extent that the breakfast cereal known as Raisin Bran in the United States and most other English-speaking countries is known as " Sultana Bran " in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Another seedless grape variety from the former Ottoman Empire, the round-fruited Kishmish, is also called the sultana.
The sultana grape's American name, Thompson Seedless, refers to William Thompson, a viticulturist who was an early grower in California and is sometimes credited with introducing the variety.
The term " sultana " is occasionally used to describe raisins.
The sultana grape is even used to make white wine, in which use it is known for its " sweet blandness ".
Two women held the title of sultana during the short-lived Sultanate of Egypt: Melek Tourhan, the wife of Sultan Hussein Kamel, and Nazli Sabri, the wife of Sultan Fuad I. Nazli Sabri became Queen following the establishment of the Kingdom of Egypt in 1922, and it is with the latter title that she is almost always associated.
Melek Tourhan, on the other hand, legally retained the title of sultana even after Egypt became a kingdom, and is often referred to simply as Sultana Melek.
Finally, Juan is brought into an imperial hall to meet the sultana, Gulbeyaz, a 26-year-old beauty who is the sultan's fourth, last and favourite wife.
But the sultana is suspicious nevertheless, becomes enraged, and instructs Baba to have Dudù and Juan killed in the usual manner ( drowning ).
In the Ambrosian library of Milan there is still preserved an official copy of a letter which was forwarded through Venetian diplomats to Kale Kartanou, after she had become sultana, a letter from her mother asking that the sultana take her to Constantinople.
Together with this letter is preserved a note from the sultana, ordering certain officials to aid her mother in reaching Constantinople.
* The khanum, referred to as the Sultana or " the little sultana ," in Leroux's book, is widely regarded as the most powerful woman in Persia.
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Bagne became the French word for the prisons of the galley slaves of Algiers ", 1580 ), Los baños de Argel (" The Bagnios of Algiers ", 1615 ), El gallardo español (" The Gallard Spaniard ", 1615 ) and La gran sultana (" The great sultaness ", 1615 ) were four comedies by Miguel de Cervantes about the life of the caitiffs.
sultana and grape
In Anglo-America, most raisins, including those with the typical dark brown colour, are made from the sultana grape, called the Thompson Seedless there.
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In parts of Calabria, the anchovy or a sultana variety are consumed on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
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Seedless varieties include the sultana ( also known as Thompson Seedless in the USA ) and Flame grapes.
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* 1998: Rifat sultana Mukti ( 1st Tibbet Miss Ruposhi Khulna ).
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A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
Writers openly admit that the Negro is easier to write than the white man ; ;
But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.
While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.
At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.
There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;
West of Rock Creek Park is still monolithically white and is in fact increasingly white as a result of Georgetown's conversion-by-renovation housing program.
That is, they used opaque color throughout, getting solid highlights with active lime white.
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
A white wine, already at cool cellar temperature, may be adequately chilled in a bucket of ice and water or the freezing compartment of a refrigerator ( the former is far preferable ) in about fifteen minutes ; ;
Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.
The fragrance and taste of any white wine will die a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is exposed for long to the air.
Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.
This is a problem to which leaders of opinion, both Negro and white, should devote far more attention.
He is not prepared for it -- naturally, nobody is -- and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him.
is and pale
In I know one thing dominant stress is likely to go to one rather than to semantically pale thing.
But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom.
Still, his finale is put together with taste and a most sensitive projection of that pale sustenance, despair.
The Riegger, with its Latin hesitation bounce, is just this side of the pale ; ;
the love-making, perhaps because it is pale and low-key when one has been conditioned to expect harsh colors and explicitness, is often charming ; ;
The aardvark is pale yellowish-gray in color and often stained reddish-brown by soil.
As well as the usual yellow-orange-brown that is associated with the color " amber ", amber itself can range from a whitish color through a pale lemon yellow, to brown and almost black.
Greek agate is a name given to pale white to tan colored agate found in Sicily back to 400 B. C.
" The most detailed surviving description of Agathon is in the Thesmophoriazousae, in which Agathon appears as a pale, clean-shaven young man dressed in women's clothes.
When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color ( sometimes streaked with black ), soft, with a strong fecal smell.
Quilmes is the national brand of pale lager, named after the town of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, where it was first produced.
The blazon of the coat of arms is Per pale, dexter: sable, a fess wavy argent, charged with two cotises wavy azure ; sinister: sky blue, three mullets of five argent.
The pale coloured extension behind the small courtyard on the left is Admiralty House.
When Beavis eats all of Tom Anderson's candy, his Cornholio persona emerges and embarks on a rampage to acquire more from other trick-or-treaters, while Butt-Head is taken on a " ride " to the countryside in Todd's trunk, where he encounters a strangely pale old farmer.
When Beavis finally comes down from his sugar high, he is hanging on a meathook in the farmer's barn, where the old man and a similarly pale Butt-Head seemingly attack him with chainsaws as the episode fades to blood red.
The plumage can vary in Britain from almost pure white to black, but is usually shades of brown, with a pale ' necklace ' of feathers.
This crane is pale blue-gray in colour becoming darker on the upper head, neck and nape.
The flowers are pale purple, and star-shaped with six petals, 1 – 2 cm wide, and produced in a dense inflorescence of 10-30 together ; before opening, the inflorescence is surrounded by a papery bract.
Historically, allegations of cannibalism were used by the colonial powers to justify the enslavement of what were seen as primitive peoples ; cannibalism has been said to test the bounds of cultural relativism as it challenges anthropologists " to define what is or is not beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior ".
The couscous is usually steamed several times until it is very fluffy and pale in color.
Cheddar cheese is a relatively hard, pale yellow to off-white ( unless artificially coloured ), and sometimes sharp-tasting, cheese.
Cheddar is usually a deep to pale yellow ( off-white ) colour, but food colourings are sometimes used in industrial varieties of Cheddar style cheeses.
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