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Mignon

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The young Italian girl who fell in love with Wilhelm Meister’s apprentice, her protector. Her love not being returned, she became insane and died. (Goethe: Wilhelm Meister.)

 

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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.

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Midnight Oil
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Midsummer Ale
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Midsummer Men
Midsummer-Moon Madness
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Midwife (Anglo-Saxon, mid, with; wif, woman)
Miggs (Miss)
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Mike
Milan Decree (The)
Milan Steel
Milanese
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Milesian Story or Tale (A)
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