Elsa

//ˈɛlsə// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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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