Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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grizel . - noun An obsolete spelling of
grizzle .
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- proper noun A female
given name ; a medieval variant ofGriselda , rare today.
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Examples
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Our second child, a girl, I intended to call after her aunt Grissel; but my wife, who during her pregnancy had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia.
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In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grissel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand godmother, the girl was, by her directions, called Sophia; so that we had two romantic names in the family; but
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In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grissel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand god-mother, the girl was by her direction called Sophia; so that we had two romantic names in the family; but I solemnly protest I had no hand in it.
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Probably the girls would choose _Patient Grissel_, _The History of Mother Bunch_ or _Cinderella_.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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A number of ballads in all countries were dedicated to Griselda; the popularity of an English one is shown by the fact of other ballads being "to the tune of Patient Grissel."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Our second child, a girl, I intended to call, after her aunt, Grissel; but my wife, who had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called
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Grissel_, by Boccaccio; _Fortunatus_; _Valentine and Orson_;
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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We done sot 'er by Ole Mis' Grissel w'en she wuz 'live, an' we done sot 'er by Miss Chris, an' we done sot 'er by
The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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En dar wuz Miss Chris 'en ole Miss Grissel a-makin' up ter 'em, en a-layin 'out er demselves fer
The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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On pages 123 and 124 of the folio Field discovered “this ballad of Chicago's patient Grissel (erroneously pronounced 'Gristle' in leading western circles), setting forth the miseries and the fate of a lass who loved a sailor”:
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
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