Melisenʹdra.
Charlemagne’s daughter, married to his nephew Don Gwyfeʹros. She was taken captive by the Moors, and confined seven years in a dungeon, when Gwyfeʹros rescued her. (Don Quixote.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.