mignonette

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Etymology

French mignonette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

mignonette (plural mignonettes)

1. 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.
2. A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.

   mignonette colour:

Scientific names

• Reseda odorata

Translations

Plant

• Russian: резеда (ru) (rezeda) f

Adjective

mignonette (comparative more mignonette, superlative most mignonette)

1. 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 [...].

See also

• dyer's rocket
• Appendix:Colors

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

mignonette f (plural mignonettes)

1. Alternative form of mignonnette.

Anagrams

• témoignent