"Rent" character based on a seamstress in "La Bohme" (4)

I believe the answer is:

mimi

(Other definitions for mimi that I've seen before include "unfortunate sewer" , "I'm, I'm mad about the heroine in 'La Boheme'" , "Puccini's seamstress" , "La Boheme character (whose tiny hand is frozen)" , "Puccini heroine" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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