Mignon

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( a.) See 3d Minion.

(2): ( v. t.) To flatter.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

An impassioned Italian child, a creation of Goethe's in his "Wilhelm Meister," of mysterious origin and history; represented as a compact of vague aspirations and longings under which, as never fulfilled, she at length pines away and dies.

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