mignonette.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
A mignonette vine.
A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
Short for mignonette sauce
Where this word comes from
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
Where this word comes from
From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
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