English

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Noun

mignonette ‎(plural mignonettes)

1. A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
2. A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.

   mignonette colour:

Translations

Adjective

mignonette ‎(comparative more mignonette, superlative most mignonette)

1. Of a grey-green colour, like that of the 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 [...].

Related terms

• mignonette sauce

See also

• dyer's rocket
• Appendix:Colors

French

Pronunciation

Noun

mignonette f ‎(plural mignonettes)

1. Alternative form of mignonnette

Anagrams

• témoignent