Brewer's: Emile

(2 syl.). The French form of Emilius. The hero of Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel of the same name, and his ideal of a perfectly educated young man.

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