Griselda
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Etymology edit
From the Old English elements *grīs (“gray”) + hild (“battle”), meaning “gray battle-maid”.
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Griselda
- The long-suffering wife of a nobleman in a medieval tale.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages used in Middle Ages, but rather rare today.
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Griselda (plural Griseldas)
- A woman of exemplary gentleness and patience.
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Chaucer's Envoy to the Clerk's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
- Husbands, be not so hardy as to assail
The patience of your wives in hope to find
Griseldas, for you certainly will fail.
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Griselda f
- a female given name