Brewer's: Sassanides

(4 syl.). The first Persian dynasty of the historic period; so named because Ardeshir, the founder, was son of Sassan, a lineal descendant of Xerxes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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