Griseous

Of a mottled gra, or grizzled color. Grisette, (gre-zet',) n. [Fr.; Sp. griseta, from Fr. gris, gray, from young women of the working-cla es wearing gowns of gray stuff.] In France, a young woman who earns her own livelihood by daily labor, but who conducts her own household, and lives independently. Grisi, ( greze ,) GIULIA, the eminent Italian vocalist, upon whom her contemporaries conferred the proud title of "Queen of Song," was born in 1812. Her father (Garcia) was an officer of engineers in the army of Napoleon I., and her aunt the once famous cantatrice Josephine Gra in i. Giulia was educated in a convent at Girizia, and it is said that the succe on the operatic stage of an elder sister, who died early, induced her to choose the same profe ion, although at the time her voice gave little promise. She made her début at Bologna in a contralto part, appeared in Romeo e Giuletta at Florence and at Milan, and made her first appearance in Paris and London in 1834, as Ninetta in La Gazza Ladra, where she achieved a decided succe . Every part which she a umed afterwards steadily increased her reputation, which may be said to have been established by her impersonation of the Queen in Semiramide , and of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Her fame reached its climax in her rendition of the rôles of Norma and Lucrezia Borgia , in which characters her singing and dramatic acting have never been surpa ed. Madame G. was twice married; on the second occasion to the unrivalled tenor Signor Mario (Marquis de Candia) by whom she had a family. This giftéd lady D. in 1870. Gris'kin, n. The spine or vertebræ of a pig; as, a roasted griskin of pork.