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Elaine

Elaine \E*la"ine\, or Elain \E*la"in\, n. [Gr. ? olive oil, oil, from ? the olive tree: cf. F. ['e]la["i]ne.] (Chem.) Same as Olein.

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Elaine, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 865
Housing Units (2000): 356
Land area (2000): 0.501229 sq. miles (1.298176 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.501229 sq. miles (1.298176 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20950
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.308595 N, 90.854201 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72333
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Elaine

Elaine may refer to:

  • Elaine (legend), name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend
  • "Elaine" (short story), 1945 short story by J. D. Salinger
Elaine (legend)

Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend.

Elaine (given name)

Elaine is a given name, one of the variants of Helen, and may refer to:

  • Elaine Brown, involved with a dispute with the US Government
  • Elaine Chao (born 1953), United States Secretary of Labor
  • Elaine M. Goodwin, British mosaic artist
  • Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), American artist
  • Elaine Ingham, American microbiologist and soil biology researcher
  • Elaine E Moura, Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • Elaine Thompson (born 1992), Jamaican sprinter
Elaine (short story)

"Elaine" (1945) is an early short story published by J. D. Salinger in Story. In it, the title character lives with her mom and grandmother in the Bronx. She is a beautiful young girl unaware of the miasma of the city around her. One reason for this is that she is intellectually years behind her peers, graduating from eighth grade at 16 after being "tested" at age 7 and forced to stay back two grades. Salinger writes that she is one of only two students wearing lipstick at the graduation ceremony.

Elaine and her mother spend the bulk of their time together watching movies at the local cinema—this seems to be the world both of them escape to. They find a "fourth-rate picture exceptionally engrossing" while watching it with the super of their building. At this point in the story Elaine is introduced to sexuality when the older man touches her leg during the movie. She does not recognize this as an inappropriate gesture and doesn't tell her mom about it.

Later, she meets an usher at the theater, who asks her out on a date. She looks stunning as he picks her up with his friends and they go to the beach. Throughout the story Elaine is unable to pick up on social cues and participate in conversations, suggesting she has a learning disability of some kind. Elaine ends up under the boardwalk where she has sex with her date.

Elaine arranges to marry this boy, Teddy Schmidt, a month later. During the ceremony her mother challenges Teddy, calling him a "sissy" and refuses to let her daughter take part in the wedding. Elaine's mother and grandmother walk across the room and take Elaine back with them as Teddy stands by helpless. Outside the three of them walk towards the theater, to see a Henry Fonda movie.

Category:1945 short stories Category:Short stories by J. D. Salinger Category:Works originally published in Story (magazine)

Elaine (song)

"Elaine" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was used as the B-side to the 1980 single " The Winner Takes It All". It was not included on any of their original albums but was later included as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of Super Trouper.

Usage examples of "elaine".

It was an undoubted opportunity for him to put in some disparaging criticism of Comus, and Elaine sat alert in readiness to judge the critic and reserve judgment on the criticised.

Elaine and Comus were indulging themselves in two pennyworths of Park chair, drawn aside just a little from the serried rows of sitters who were set out like bedded plants over an acre or so of turf.

To-day Elaine felt that, without having actually quarrelled, she and Comus had drifted a little bit out of sympathy with one another.

Elaine de Frey had known very clearly what qualities she had wanted in Comus, and she had known, against all efforts at self-deception, that he fell far short of those qualities.

There was balm to Elaine in this reflection, yet it did not wholly suffice to drive out the feeling of pique which Comus had called into being by his slighting view of her as a convenient cash supply in moments of emergency.

Reading the letter again and again Elaine could come to no decision as to whether this was merely a courageous gibe at defeat, or whether it represented the real value that Comus set on the thing that he had lost.

Elaine de Frey and her fortune might have been the making of Comus, but he had hurried in as usual to effect his own undoing.

Elaine was pointed out to her, sitting in the fourth row of the stalls, on the opposite side of the house to where Comus had his seat.

She phoned Stuart and Elaine Duncan, putting off the mid-week invitation to dinner, a coffee morning, and all the others, but assuring them that soon she and Peter would be back into their social routine, his travelling permitting.

Elaine stood in the ball-room surrounded by a laughing jostling throng of pierrots, jockeys, Dresden-china shepherdesses, Roumanian peasant-girls and all the lively make-believe creatures that form the ingredients of a fancy-dress ball.

Charles Brand and his producer Elaine Bedell were flying in to meet with Tribeca president Jane Rosenthal.

Since her last encounter with her wooers, under the cedars in her own garden, Elaine realised that she was either very happy or cruelly unhappy, she could not quite determine which.

Elaine had downloaded some of his audios after work and listened to them for—well, as long as she could stand it—and it was, umm, certainly peaceful.

Or maybe I thought the whole idea up, tracked Balmer down as a necessary accomplice, and Elaine was drawn in later.

Nobody was supposed to know of Sarda's whereabouts except Balmer and Elaine.