Brewer's: Tournemine

(3 syl.). That's Tournemine. Your wish was father to the thought. Tournemine was a Jesuit of the eighteenth century, of a very sanguine and dreamy temperament.

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