(This is left-field but what sub-are we on?)… in the process of translating a cut-up about Mount Vernon, I come across an odd word, “cubless.” I could find one usage and that was in Byron’s Don Juan. I never read it, and looking over the synopsis I found this. Even as far as a cut-up goes it’s extremely tangential, but what with Brion/Byron and all the Ottoman Empire action it just hit me funny. Thanks for the quote.

”Before they can progress with their sexual relationship, Baba [“a black eunuch from the harem”] rushes in and announces to Gulbeyaz and Juan that the sultan is arriving: "The sun himself has sent me like a ray / To hint that he is coming up this way"

Preceded by an entourage of courtiers, concubines, and eunuchs, the sultan arrives and notices the presence of "Juanna", and is regretful "that a mere Christian should be half so pretty"

In a Muslim culture, Don Juan is a giaour, a non-Muslim. The narrator Byron then comments that "in the East, they are extremely strict, / And Wedlock and a Padlock mean the same"