Zenobia, brilliant[brilliant] and beautiful woman, the most striking figure in the group of remarkable people who compose the Blithedale Farm household. She has a dark history which she would forget in a later love. This fails her and she drowns herself. “Being the woman that she was, could Zenobia have foreseen[foreseen] all these ugly circumstances of death, how ill it would become her ... she would no more have committed the dreadful act than have exhibited herself to a public assembly in a badly-fitting garment.... She was not quite simple in her death.”--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1850).
Zeno´cia, daughter of Chari´no, and the chaste troth-plight wife of Arnoldo. While Arnoldo is wantonly loved by the rich Hippol´yta, Zenocia is dishonorably pursued by the governor, Count Clo´dio.--Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647).
Zephalinda, a young lady who has tasted the delights of a London season, but is taken back to her home in the country, to find enjoyment in needlework, dull aunts, and rooks.
She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
To morning walk, and prayers three hours a day;
To part her time ’twixt reading and Bohea,
To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
O’er her cold coffee trifle with her spoon,
Count the slow clock and dine exact at noon.
Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount (1715).