mignon

¹

[ min-yon; French mee-nyawn ]

adjective

1. small and pretty; delicately pretty.

Mignon

²

[ mee-nyawn ]

noun

1. an opera (1866) by Ambroise Thomas.

mignon

/ ˈmɪnjɒn; miɲɔ̃; ˈmɪnjɒn; miɲɔn /

adjective

1. small and pretty; dainty

Derived Forms

• mignonne, noun:feminine

Word History and Origins

Origin of mignon¹

From French, dating back to 1550–60; minion

Word History and Origins

Origin of mignon¹

C16: from French, from Old French mignot dainty

Example Sentences

Weaving a Dan Brown-esque plot device into a novel of post-Soviet broken-home melancholy feels a lot like filet mignon served with a side of microwave mac and cheese.

From Los Angeles Times

The hotels named in the indictment also allegedly correspond with luxury hotels in which he spent much of a months-long drug and alcohol binge with an entourage he recalled would "drink up the entire minibar, call room service for filet mignon and a bottle of Dom Pérignon".

From BBC

"They'd drink up the entire minibar, call room service for filet mignon and a bottle of Dom Pérignon," reads part of the defendant's memoir, prosecutors note.

From BBC

“I love cooking rib-eye and I also cook filet mignon.”

From Seattle Times

"How does that dinner conversation go? 'Wow, this filet mignon is a little dry. How's your extrajudicial internment of over a million Uyghur Muslims going?" said Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the House of Representative's select committee on China.

From Reuters