isabella

name

1. A female given name from Hebrew.

   “[C]an you ſo ſteed me, / As bring me to the ſight of Iſabella, / A Nouice of this place, and the faire Siſter / To her vnhappie brother Claudio?”

   “A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.”

2. A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

noun

1. (countable)A grape cultivar popular in the former USSR derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca.
2. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of isabella.

   “If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…]”

   “The late Queen Victoria drove behind horses of a peculiar shade which nothing but Isabella color would describe. Now it is to appear in furs for the élite.”

   “Mr. and Mrs. Moes left after the reception for New York and other places, the bride wearing Burgundy cloth with a chic grey hat and veil and Isabella fox furs.”

3. (uncountable)A pale grey-yellow, fawn, cream-brown or parchment colour.

   “If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…]”