mignonnette

English

Noun

mignonnette (plural mignonnettes)

1. Obsolete spelling of mignonette.
   • 1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449:

     The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.

   • 1855, Household Words, volume 30, page 228:

     Mr. Blueapron — who keeps his vinery so moist that his vines put forth roots, in mid air, the whole length of their new-wood branches — who manures his vine-borders with quarters of dead horse, and will not allow even a mignonnette plant to exhaust their richness — would look aghast if he were told to cultivate such compost as that.

   • 1857, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, page 21:

     The fragrance of mignonnettes, and a hundred flowers that recall Old England, fill the air.

   • 1863, Mrs. H. C. Gardner, Rosedale: A Story of Self-denial, page 187:

     These are anemones, such as I put on your shelf yesterday morning, but these little starry mignonnettes did not grow wild, neither did those wax-balls in the middle.

   • 1873, Every Saturday, page 318:

     The Victoria Regia, the fuchsias, the mignonnettes, the orchids, were almost life-like in their fidelity.

   • 1875, Friends Intelligencer, volume 31, page 493:

     A little forest of mignonnettes sets an example of soberness and fragrance, while that honest gilliflower looks like an old-fashioned English matron.

   • 1879, Scientific American, volume 8, page 3089:

     Again, it is a fact that among the sweet mignonnettes some are less fertile than others, and that the least productive have the most odor.

   • 1880, George M F. Glenny, Floriculture, page 81:

     Those desirous of raising a / mignonnette tree / may proceed as follows:—In April sow two or three seeds in a sixty-sized pot, and when the seedlings are large enough, and growing strongly, reduce to one plant, and shift this repeatedly into larger pots until August.

   • 1893, The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review, volume 27, page 19:

     On both sides of this main piece runs a conventional foliage forming a succession of curling motifs, or sprays of flowers of the umbelliferous genus, ferns, sprigs of rose buds, mignonnettes, myosotis, loosely entwined with thin and narrow ribbons, etc.

French

Alternative forms

• mignonette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ɲɔ.nɛt/

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Noun

mignonnette f (plural mignonnettes)

1. miniature (small bottle))
2. cracked pepper
3. piece of pork tenderloin

Further reading

• “mignonnette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

mignonnette f (invariable)

1. miniature (bottle)