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Patient wife in a Boccaccio tale
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griselda
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Griselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms) is a figure from certain folklores , noted for her patience and obedience. In the tale as written by Giovanni Boccaccio , Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo. He tests her by declaring that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Italian, from German Grishilda , from Old High German grisja hilda , literally "gray battle-maid." The English form, Grisilde , provided Chaucer's Grizel , the name of the meek, patient wife in the Clerk's Tale, the story and the ...
Usage examples of griselda.
At the close of the season Griselda would return to Plumstead, and Lord Lufton would go--nobody as yet knew where.
Anyway he only said it because Griselda is probably going to have a big part.
Freddy lived with her sister Griselda and her father, George Alexander Webster.
The door burst open without warning and Mrs Roscoe Forrester, Professor Vambrace and Griselda ran in.
And by the terms of this treaty Griselda Grantly was to become Lady Lufton.
And thus, in this way, and for these reasons, Griselda Grantly had been chosen out from all the world to be the future Lady Lufton.
Lady Lufton after receiving her guests introduced Lucy to Griselda Grantly.
And then Griselda smiled again, somewhat less graciously than before, and so the conversation ended.
She never lacked for subjects on which to speak to a country clergyman of the right sort, and thus Griselda was left quite uninterrupted.
But Lucy could not but observe that Griselda herself seemed to have very little to say--or at any rate to say very little.
But then Griselda Grantly probably know much better than Lucy did how to comport herself in such a situation.
Lucy smiled, and tried to look pleased, but she felt that she and Griselda Grantly could never be bosom friends--could never have anything in common between them.
She felt sure that Griselda despised her, little, brown, plain, and unimportant as she was.
But she did not admit to herself that such a visit would be intolerable if his whole time was devoted to Griselda Grantly.
Lady Lufton derived from this was not more than neutralized by an opinion he once put forward that Griselda Grantly wanted some of the fire of Lucy Robarts.