Mignonette

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›t

Origin

French mignonette, from mignon ("dainty") + -ette ("diminutive suffix").

Full definition of mignonette

Noun

1. A plant () having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
2. A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.

Adjective

1. Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height ....