muguet
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]muguet (plural muguets)
- 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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[edit]muguet m (plural muguets)
- (botany) lily of the valley
- Synonym: lliri de maig
- (pathology) thrush (oral candidiasis)
Further reading
[edit]- “muguet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
French
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Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]muguet m (plural muguets)
- lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
- (medicine) thrush (oral yeast infection, oral candidiasis)
- (dated) dandy
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “muguet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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