Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Sultana

A beautiful bird, allied to the moorhen, with blue feathers, showing beautiful metallic gloss, generally with red beak and legs.

“Some purple-winged sultana.”

Moore: Paradise and the Peri.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Summa Diligentia
Sultan's Horse, Deadly
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