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mignonette en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Meanings
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Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
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
Forms
Relateds
dyer's rocket · mignonette pepper · mignonette sauce
Synonyms
reseda
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mignonette en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
These rooms were on a level with the apartments of our friends Bows and Costigan next door at No. 4; and by reaching over the communicating leads, Grady could command the mignonette-box which bloomed in Bows’s window.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 43, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!"
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2:
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(countable, uncountable) A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
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(countable, uncountable) A mignonette vine.
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(countable, uncountable) A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Short for mignonette sauce
Forms
Synonyms
reseda · reseda (plant)
Translations (15)
nl tuinreseda (the plant Reseda odorata) · ru резеда́ (the plant Reseda odorata) · ga buí cumhra (the plant Reseda odorata) · gl reseda (the plant Reseda odorata) · ro rezedă (the plant Reseda odorata) · bg жълта резеда (the plant Reseda odorata) · ja 木犀草 (the plant Reseda odorata) · fi tuoksureseda (the plant Reseda odorata) · de resedagrün (greyish-green colour — see also reseda) · ca marduixí (the plant Reseda odorata) · tr muhabbet çiçeği (the plant Reseda odorata) · pl rezeda wonna (the plant Reseda odorata) · ro rozetă (the plant Reseda odorata) · ota محبت چیچكی (the plant Reseda odorata) · de Garten-Resede (the plant Reseda odorata)
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