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Iseult

[ ih-soolt ]

noun

  1. Also . German Isolde. Arthurian Legend.
    1. the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram.
    2. daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
  2. a female given name.


Iseult

/ ɪˈsuːlt; ɪˈzəʊldə /

noun

  1. an Irish princess wed to Mark, king of Cornwall, but in love with his knight Tristan
  2. (in another account) the daughter of the king of Brittany, married to Tristan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Iseult

  1. In English legend, the beloved of Tristan . In German, her name is Isolde. ( See Tristan and Iseult .)


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Example Sentences

But their first baby dies two hours after birth, while Joe is away, and Iseult savagely turns on him.

“He had occupied her life like a foreign army,” Iseult thinks at one point.

Joe had promised her “life, connection, children, meaning,” Iseult reflects bitterly.

Didn't you tell us once of the Lady Iseult, who killed herself when they would not release her from her vows to the Luck?

Lyonnesse is the scene of many incidents in the Arthurian romances, and especially in the romances of Tristram and Iseult.

The mother of Iseult gave to her daughter's confidante a philtre, or love-potion, to be administered on the night of her nuptials.

Of this beverage Tristram and Iseult, on their voyage to Cornwall, unfortunately partook.

What elixir of eternal love had they drunk together as had Tristram and Iseult of old time?

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