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Lo⋅li⋅ta

[loh-lee-tuh]
–noun
1. (italics) a novel (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov.
2. nymphet (def. 2).
3. Also, Lo⋅le⋅ta. a female given name, form of Charlotte or Dolores.

Origin:
sense “nymphet” after the novel's title character
Lo·li·ta   (lō-lē'tə)   
n.  A seductive adolescent girl.

[After Lolita, the heroine of Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.]

Lolita 
fem. proper name, dim. of Lola. Title and name of character in the 1958 novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) about a precocious schoolgirl seduced by an older man; by 1960 the name was in widespread fig. use.
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