Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Spanish, literally " emerald."
Wikipedia
Esmerelda, was a stern-wheel paddle-steamer, built for the Sacramento River trade, in 1864 it became the first of the opposition steamboats on the Colorado River. It was also the first steamboat to tow large cargo barges on that river, in May 1864 and to reach Callville, Nevada in 1866.
Usage examples of "esmerelda".
The poor bastard who sat there listening to me talking to Esmerelda about her grandchildren, talking to my roommates about which movie we should go see, explaining to reporters the difference between dioxin and dioxane - he must have been bored out of his mind.
I think Esmerelda is our best bet for information, as she warms his bed.
With this realization, any compassion Esmerelda may have felt for Adrienne evaporated.
Or worse, the news Tavis had discovered a scant hour ago: that Esmerelda had been trying to kill Adrienne but was now dead herself.
Something else Esmerelda had done that had brought strife upon her people.
Rushka had insinuated that it was Adam who had brought Esmerelda to them last night.
I threw myself on the mercy of Esmerelda, a black librarian of somewhere between ninety and a hundred who contained within her bionic hairdo all knowledge, or the ability to find it.
Esmerelda flinched at his open admission that he still had energy to spare.
A different fellow had gone out there to Esmerelda, with the bad nerves and the flying twitches and the guilts and remorses and the feeling of being savagely and forever alone.