Feminine desire to embrace sultanate (8)

I believe the answer is:

womanish

'feminine' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'desire to embrace sultanate' is the wordplay.
'desire' becomes 'wish' (wishing is a kind of desiring).
'to embrace' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sultanate' becomes 'oman' (I've seen this before).
'wish' placed around 'oman' is 'WOMANISH'.

(Another definition for womanish that I've seen is " Having feminine features".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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