Desdemona

alternative Disdemona

1. Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, noted for being a victim of jealousy.

   Luria, the Moor of Florence, is a sentimentally magnanimous Othello without his passions and without his Desdemona.

   2005, Boyd Litzinger, Donald Smalley, Robert Browning: The Critical Heritage, page 260

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   As I looked out of the corner of my eye at this savagely picturesque fellow, wondering where was his Desdemona, a dainty and remarkably pretty piece of femininity entered the car, advanced to our table and sat herself beside Othello.

   1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat

   On the first of these days' amusements ( I know not what year ) Frank took offence at some attentions paid his Desdemona, and walked away next morning to London in wrath.

   1848, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, page 77

   Devastated by early losses, the narcissistic lover is unable to live with his Desdemona because he is unable to live without his idealization of her.

   2012, Alvin O. Korte, Nosotros: A Study of Everyday Meanings in Hispano New Mexico

2. astronomyAn inner moon of the planet Uranus.
3. astronomy666 Desdemona, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1908.