A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife. In the third episode, the commoner Peronella makes a cuckold of her dimwitted husband. Separately, green hats are associated with infidelity and used as an idiom for a cuckold. Wert persisted in his job, despite the censure of the choir for being a cuckold. The proud Ephraim is oblivious to his neighbors' open mocking of him as a cuckold. "Monstrous" may be a double-entendre for cuckold. In the Prose "Tristan", Mark's character deteriorates from a sympathetic cuckold to a downright villain. In China, the phrase "wearing a green hat", refers to a cuckold. Mainstream conservatives were often denigrated as "cuckservatives", a portmanteau of "cuckold" and "conservative". A cuckquean is the gender-opposite of a cuckold. One of the emblems from the series is entitled "Patiente cornudo" (the "patient cuckold").