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/ˈɪsoʊɫd, ɪˈsoʊɫdə/
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NOUN
- (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
How To Use Isolde In A Sentence
- As he climbed into his tilbury some twenty yards away, Isolde shrugged.
- Iso writes about the children as if they were her own, and signs her name Isolde, but she also says she does not for a moment expect this to last. The Women’s Room
- Archon Beed Thane of Vergill was particularly opposed, and theatrically insulted Leia Organa Solo in order to provoke an honor duel from Isolder.
- And even now, Isolde could see with aching clarity the tiny, waxen face and flowerlike hands of her stillborn baby girl. Dark Moon of Avalon
- In Tristan and Isolde, this release from life is achieved by the self-sacrificial love of a woman who is prepared to share her lover's non-existence and unite with him in death.
- As one of the later additions to the cycle of Arthur stories, the legend of Trystan and Isolde is particularly grounded in a courtly chivalric world. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Anna Elliott, part 1
- It crams in numerological and musical symbolism, and includes quotations from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony.
- Isolde had been healer to more of them than she could count, and she knew how very, very rarely did such men pick up the shattered pieces of themselves and walk on with their spirits not unscarred exactly, but at least whole. Dark Moon of Avalon
- Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is one of the consummate masterpieces of German opera.
- Its musical counterpart is contained somehow in the written poetry, and mists rise before our eyes when the small black type informs us that Isolde cries in the ears of deaf love: "_Isolde rutt! ... The Wagnerian Romances