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Desdemona

[ dez-duh-moh-nuh ]

noun

  1. (in Shakespeare's Othello ) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago.


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Example Sentences

Maggie Smith was Desdemona, the victim of circumstance, in the 1965 Othello adaptation.

So let us be, with our Desdemona of rights, unlike Othello “that loved not wisely, but too well.”

Desdemona, providentially finding employment at a Detroit mosque, witnesses the founding of the Nation of Islam.

Their hit song, "Desdemona," was famously banned by the BBC thanks to Bolan's lyric, Lift up your Skirt and Fly.

I sympathise with poor Desdemona when she had such a dangerous stream poured in her ear, even by a black man.

It was surely the name of the maid who died singing, as Desdemona remembers, that lingered in the ear of Wordsworth.

The first woman who appeared in a regular drama, on a public stage, played Desdemona, about the year 1660.

His poor mother gazed at him with extravagant envy and, like Desdemona, wished heaven had made her such a man.

Chatty cried, like Desdemona, suddenly clenching her soft hands in a passion of indignation and pity.

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