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- proper noun rare A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Lisetta," she whispered, "I am spoiling your good time.
Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason
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Feeling silenced by the TUSD school board, Ethic Studies/Mexican American Studies high school students Mayra Feliciano and Lisetta Cota from Pueblo High School took part in this interview on the impact of the program on their educational success, their view of the controversy, and what students with UNIDOS plan to do next.
Jeff Biggers: College-Bound Students Defy Arizona's Witch Hunt with Boycott: Exclusive Interview with Ethnic Studies Students Jeff Biggers 2011
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The function of pointing the way toward Frankenstein's cure is already served quite differently by Milner's Strutt, however, whose sociability and straightforward pursuit of the butler's daughter, Lisetta, implicitly rebuke his employer's self-serving, secretive, and devious ways.
Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003
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And such is the happy fortune of your friend Lisetta, of whose perfections, great Cupid the awefull commanding God of
The Decameron 2004
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I perceive Gossip said Lisetta, whereat you aime, and such is my love to you, as you should not lose your longing in this case, were
The Decameron 2004
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It fortuned within few dayes after that Madam Lisetta being in company with one of her Gossips, and their conference (as commonly it falleth out to be) concerning other women of the City; their beauty, behaviour, amorous suters and servants, and generall opinion conceived of their worth, and merit; wherein Lisetta was over-much conceyted of her selfe, not admitting any other to be her equall.
The Decameron 2004
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Brethren to Lisetta, perceiving God Cupid to be fied and gone, and she in melancholly sadnesse sitting by them: they tooke up the
The Decameron 2004
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Upon this conclusion, Albert departed, leaving Lisetta in no meane pride of imagination, that God Cupid should be enamoured of her beauty; and therefore she thought each houre a yeare, till she might see him in the mortall shape of Friar Albert.
The Decameron 2004
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It fortuned, that the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations over-publikely discovered, purposed to check and reprove Lisetta for her indiscretion.
The Decameron 2004
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The vertuous oath being past, with many other solemne protestations beside, Lisetta then pro. ceeded in this maner.
The Decameron 2004
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