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ESMERALDA
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Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: ez-mə-RAHL-də (English), es-me-RAHL-dah (Spanish) [key]
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Means "emerald" in Spanish. This name was used by Victor Hugo in his novel 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Gypsy girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time. |
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