Meaning of mignonette | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.
   countable, uncountable
3. A mignonette vine.
   countable, uncountable
4. A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
   countable, uncountable
5. Short for mignonette sauce
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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!"”

“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.”

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