ISEULT

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• ISEULT (noun)
  The noun ISEULT has 1 sense:

1. (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

  Familiarity information: ISEULT used as a noun is very rare.

• ISEULT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Iseult; Isolde

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Domain category:

fable; legend (a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events)

Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)

 Context examples 

Perhaps he had had somebody like her in mind when he painted that girl, Iseult, in the book there on the table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For some reason, though I know not why in the argument, so utterly had I lost it in the contemplation of one stray brown lock of Maud’s hair, he quoted from Iseult at Tintagel, where she says:

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)