Brewer's: Mignon

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.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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