mignonette
/ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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
adj
Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height […]."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
mignonettes (plural)
mignonnette (alternative, obsolete)
more mignonette (comparative)
most mignonette (superlative)