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mignonette

[ min-yuh-net ]

noun

  1. a plant, Reseda odorata, common in gardens, having racemes of small, fragrant, greenish-white flowers with prominent orange anthers.
  2. a grayish green resembling the color of a reseda plant.


mignonette

/ ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt /

noun

  1. any of various mainly Mediterranean plants of the resedaceous genus Reseda, such as R. odorata ( garden mignonette ), that have spikes of small greenish-white flowers with prominent anthers
  2. a type of fine pillow lace
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

    1. of a greyish-green colour; reseda
    2. (as modifier)

      mignonette ribbons

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mignonette1

From French, dating back to 1690–1700; mignon, -ette
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mignonette1

C18: from French, diminutive of mignon
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Example Sentences

With unadorned raw oysters or oysters and mignonette, the classics — Muscadet, Chablis and Sancerre — are all wonderful.

She and David McQueen, the restaurant’s director of operations, had also provided sliced lemons and a mignonette of shallots and vinegar.

Place a few tiny shucked oysters in each jigger, and drizzle with a bit of mignonette, a classic chilled sauce for raw oysters, made with red wine vinegar, shallots and cracked black pepper.

The Walrus packs them in ice pebbles with mignonette, fresh horseradish and lemon, and the satisfaction of making your own arrangement — working for it — is much bigger than the bivalves themselves.

Relatively easy to recycle, glass was selected for the mignonette accompanying takeout oysters.

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