Liza
An innkeeper's daughter in love with Elvino, a rich farmer: but
Elvino loves Amina. 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.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Liza from Fact Monster:
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