mignonette
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
mignonette (plural mignonettes)
- A plant#Noun|plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flower#Noun|flowers with orange-coloured#Adjective|coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual#Adjective|annual herb. [from early 18th c.]
- A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
- A mignonette vine
- A greyish-green colour#Noun|colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
- Russian: резеда́
mignonette
- Of a greyish-green colour#Noun|colour, like that of the flower#Noun|flowers of the plant#Noun|plant.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44:
- 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:
- mignonette pepper
- mignonette sauce
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