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Elvira

fem. proper name, from Spanish, of Germanic origin.

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Elvira

Elvira is a female given name. It is of Spanish origin, originally believed to mean "the white". Other theories are that it is of Germanic or West Gothic origin and that the name means "alert" or "trustworthy".

Elvira may refer to:

Elvira (song)

"Elvira" is a song written by Dallas Frazier which became a famous country and pop hit by The Oak Ridge Boys in 1981, now considered one of their signature songs.

Elvira (genus)

Elvira is a genus of hummingbirds. It consists of two small species. They are:

  • White-tailed emerald, Elvira chionura
  • Coppery-headed emerald, Elvira cupreiceps
Elvira (disambiguation)

Elvira is a female given name.

Elvira may also refer to:

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Threats of punishment bring back his servile manner, and Don Giovanni is about to acquaint him of a new conquest, when a lady, Donna Elvira, comes upon the scene.

The insult throws Elvira into a rage, and she resolves to forego her love and seek vengeance instead.

Donna Elvira, Donna Anna, and Don Ottavio, who come to confront him who has wronged them all, are specially bidden, as was the custom, because they appeared in masks.

Leporello is trying to escape from Elvira, who still thinks him Don Giovanni, and is first confronted by Masetto and Zerlina and then by Ottavio and Anna.

The supper is interrupted by Donna Elvira, who comes to plead on her knees with Don Giovanni to change his mode of life.

Tomorrow he would have Elvira, who could do more tricks with a six-inch dick than a monkey could with a hundred foot of grapevine, then he would heal and a new outsider would come through and they would train together and then they would mate in blood and sweat in the depths of the pit.

She did not look at him but Orchid knew that, unlike Elvira, Rafe was not twinkling.

To make matters even more curious, Elvira Turlock was not the least bit concerned about the fact that she had been caught redhanded with an extremely valuable stolen book.

Orchid got the impression that Elvira and Rafe were old acquaintances who had long ago established a quasi-professional relationship.

Orchid, herself, could hardly believe that the wealthy, socially prominent Elvira Turlock, who sat on the boards of most of the major philanthropic societies in New Seattle and whose brilliant parties were legendary, was a book thief.

Leporello broke out another bottle and followed him down the short passageway, remarking that Donna Elvira would need consolation.

The hollow-eyed, the chaste Elvira came, Trembling and veiled, to view her traitor spouse.

ElviraT Iris had seen the Elvira, one of the most luxurious of the yachts on the Palm Beach scene.

As soon as Roland and Elvira had left Cranford Hall, she had phoned Sandra in panic.

Think what must have been our delight when, after passing the famous bridge of Pinos, the scene of many a bloody encounter between Moor and Christian, and remarkable for having been the place where Columbus was overtaken by the messenger of Isabella, when about to abandon Spain in despair, we turned a promontory of the arid mountains of Elvira, and Granada, with its towers, its Alhambra, and its snowy mountains, burst upon our sight!