Definition of "Zenobia"

"I shall always think," said Zenobia, "that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends."

1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion

This Zenobia ("Nobby") Hopwood was old Worplesdon's ward, as I believe it is called. A pal of his, just before he stopped ticking over some years previously, had left him in charge of his daughter.

1946, P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, Overlook Press, published 2002, page 12