PENELOPENOUN
a chaste and faithful wife ...1581 ETYMOLOGY from Greek mythology - in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope is pictured as the chaste and faithful wife of Odysseus (Ulysses) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1581 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...My concubine is a great deale more modest, than thy Penelope; so then she must take heede how she giueth men occasion to thinke sinisterly of her..." From The Ciuile Conuersation of M. Steeuen Guazzo written first in Italian... By Stefano Guazzo Translated by George Pettie, 1581 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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