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An innkeeper’s daughter in love with Elviʹno, a rich farmer: but Elviʹno loves Amiʹna. Suspicious circumstances make the farmer renounce the hand of Amina and promise marriage to her rival; but Liza is shown to be the paramour of another, and Amina, being proved innocent, is married to the man who loves her. (Bellini: La Sonnambula.) Or Lisa. (See Elvino.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Liturgy
Live
Liver-vein (The)
Livered
Liverpool
Liverpudlian
Livery
Livery-men
Livy of France (The)
Livy of Portugal (The)
Liza
Lizard (The)
Lizard Islands
Lizard Point (Cornwall)
Lloyd’s
Lloyd’s Books
Lloyd’s List
Lloyd’s Register
Lloyd’s Rooms
Loaf
Loaf held in the Hand (A)

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