Definition of "Griselda"

Griselda

proper noun
1. The long-suffering wife of a nobleman in a medieval tale.
2. A female given name from the Germanic languages used in Middle Ages, but rather rare today.
noun
plural Griseldas
1. A woman of exemplary gentleness and patience.
  Quotations
  Husbands, be not so hardy as to assailThe patience of your wives in hope to findGriseldas, for you certainly will fail.
  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