Mignonette

Quick meaning: Mignonette is a noun meaning A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.

Meaning

A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.

More Meanings

1. A mignonette vine.
2. A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
3. Short for mignonette sauce
4. Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
5. 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.

Example Sentences

She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height […].

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.

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!"

Word Forms

• mignonettes
• mignonnette

Synonyms for mignonette

Depending on context, synonyms include reseda.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reseda, minionette, weld, moschatel, rosemary, mint.

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