Esmeralda

[ ez-muh-ral-duh; Spanish es-me-rahl-dah ]

/ ˌɛz məˈræl də; Spanish ˌɛs mɛˈrɑl dɑ /

a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “emerald.”

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The scene between getaway cab driver Esmeralda Villalobos (Angela Jones) and Butch is one of the oddest in Pulp Fiction.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary|Marlow Stern|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I myself would have made light of it had I known what was still in store for the Esmeralda and her company.
The Crack of Doom|Robert Cromie
Esmeralda; humbly-born heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work of same name.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Esmeralda turned her head on the cushion, and looked at him with a lazy smile.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy|Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Apparently he did not believe the report that I had hissed at the first performance of his Esmeralda in Moscow.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
Thus was my sweet sister Esmeralda taken from us—being removed from the evil to come.
Story of My Life, volumes 1-3|Augustus J. C. Hare