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Name Desdemona

Gender of Desdemona feminine

Code Name of Desdemona: #20718

Ananym of Desdemona (spelled backwards): Anomedsed

Meaning of Desdemona:

Greek name, comes from the (δυσδαιμων) means - "ill-starred"

Desdemona is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c.1601 - 1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a man several years her senior and not of her race. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.

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