mignonette

Meanings

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

1. Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.

Etymology

From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).

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