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Gri⋅sel⋅da

  [gri-zel-duh]
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–noun
1. a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
2. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “gray battle.”
Origin:
(def. 1) after a character in a tale of the same name in Boccaccio's Decameron
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Griselda 
fem. proper name, from It., from Ger. Grishilda, from O.H.G. grisja hilda "gray battle-maid."
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Griselda

character of romance in medieval and Renaissance Europe, noted for her enduring patience and wifely obedience. She was the heroine of the last tale in the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, who derived the story from a French source. Petrarch translated Boccaccio's Italian version into Latin in De Obidentia ac fide uxoria mythologia, upon which Geoffrey Chaucer based his English version found in "The Clerk's Tale" of the Canterbury Tales. The English playwright Thomas Dekker collaborated on another version, Patient Grissil (1603).

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