• 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)
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      • 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 —
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