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Brewer's: Evangeline
(4 syl.). The heroine of Longfellow's poem so called. The subject of the tale is the expulsion of the inhabitants of Acadia (Nova Scotia) from their homes by order of George II.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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