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A lady beloved by Don Ottaʹvio, but seduced by Don Giovanni, who also killed her father, the “Commandant of the City,” in a duel. (Mozart’s opera of Don Giovanni.)
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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.