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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

soudan

, F.

soudan

, from the Arabic. See

A sultan.

[Obs.]

Milton.

, for sultan, [Not in use.]

soldan ‎(plural soldans)

(now rare, historical) The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
(now rare, archaic) A sultan.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
  And then the Damzell, the sad Samient, / Should as his purchast prize with him convay / Unto the Souldans court […].