mignonette
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Etymology [edit]
French mignonette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun [edit]
mignonette (plural mignonettes)
- A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
- A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
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Adjective [edit]
mignonette (comparative more mignonette, superlative most mignonette)
- Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
- She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height [...].
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
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Noun [edit]
mignonette f (plural mignonettes)
- Alternative form of mignonnette.