Proper noun

1. , a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.

Quotations

• 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:

  But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love!