Elsa
Origin
German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).
Full definition of Elsa
Proper noun
Elsa
(plural Elsas)- .
- 1988 Ruth Rendell, The House of Stairs, Onyx(1990), ISBN 0451402111, page 35: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 —