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muguet

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French muguet.

Noun

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muguet (plural muguets)

  1. Lily of the valley.
    • 1997 June 30, N. Groom, New Perfume Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 193:
      Muguet, a perfume obtained from the highly scented flowers of Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis), a small []
    • 2021 April 20, Hilary Miflin, The Green Fuse: …our deep connection with the power of plants, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 12:
      ... flowers and spurges – companion planting at its best. In the easternmost corner behind the gate, she had planted a large clump of muguets, Christmas hellebores and a large yucca plant. Down the valley beyond this garden was her orchard []
    • 2021 November 9, Sarah McCartney, Samantha Scriven, The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, →ISBN, page 85:
      Diorissimo by Dior / Still the muguet to beat / Perfumer[:] Edmond Roudnitska / ££ / Diorissimo wasn't the first lily of the valley (muguet) fragrance, but very few of us would bet against it. In the 1940s, Edmond Roudnitska created some downright dirty chypre fragrances: [] Five minutes later, it settles down to pure, clear, unmistakable muguet and stays like that for hours.

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French muguet.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muguet m (plural muguets)

  1. (botany) lily of the valley
    Synonym: lliri de maig
  2. (pathology) thrush (oral candidiasis)

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French

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muguet

Etymology

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From Old French muguete, muguede (as in nois muguete (nutmeg)), from Latin muscāta, feminine of muscātus (musky), from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian mwšk' (/⁠*mušk⁠/, musk), ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, testicle), the shape of the gland being similar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /my.ɡɛ/
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Noun

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muguet m (plural muguets)

  1. lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
  2. (medicine) thrush (oral yeast infection, oral candidiasis)
    Synonyms: candidose, blanchet
  3. (dated) dandy

Descendants

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  • Catalan: muguet
  • Turkish: müge

Further reading

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