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A female given name from Hebrew. quotations examples
"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."
2001, Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, page 34