Elsa
//ˈɛlsə// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from German or Hebrew.
"A friend that I envied — it was the same friend who had benefited from admiring Cosette's jewelry, a girl whose name was Elsa and whom naturally we called Lioness —"
Example
More examples"Einstein later married his cousin Elsa Einstein."
Etymology
From German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).
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