As a verb elise
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Proper noun
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* 2001 Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf , Allison & Busby, ISBN 0749005114, page 34:
- "Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."
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lisa
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Proper noun
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- You were born in the '70s? Were you named after on As the World Turns?
Usage notes
* Taken to general use as a full English given name in early 20th century. Very popular in the U.S. in the 1960s, and in the U.K. a decade later.
Quotations
* 1868 Concocted by William Meynell Whittmore (and others): Sunshine : page 138:
*: Elizabeth coloured.
*: "Oh, I don't want the doll called after me, if that is what you mean," she said, rather disdainfully.
*: "Nonsense, Lisa !" laughed her father, "you ought to consider yourself highly honoured to have such a handsome lady as this for your namesake."
* 1997 , Moon Tiger . Grove Press. ISBN0802135331
*: Lisa' is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang - whoom! ' Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain.
* 2007 , My Latest Grievance ISBN 0618872353 page 16:
*: Did I want to be burdened with a common name? Be the third Lisa and fourth Susan in my classroom? Darleen or Doreen or Maureen?
*: I did.
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