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Lo⋅li⋅ta

  [loh-lee-tuh]
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–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
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Lo·li·ta   (lō-lē'tə)   
n.  A seductive adolescent girl.

[After Lolita, the heroine of Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

LOLITA
Language for the On-Line Investigation and Transformation of Abstractions

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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