Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Delicate; dainty; pretty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Soft; dainty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete soft; dainty

Etymologies

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French mignard, akin to mignon. See minion.

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Examples

  • At that other balustrade, where Watteau, remembering this one, painted for us the 'Plaisirs du Bal,' how often they have lain in ambush, knowing that were one of them to show but the tip of his wings those sedate and migniard masqueraders would faint for very shame; yet ever hoping that they might, by their unseen presence, turn that punctilio of flirtation into love.

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • -- A mantle fair for the dainty wear of a migniard cavalier, --

    Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • "I swear by my eternal salvation, and by the holy Evangelists here present under my hand, to hold the woman suspected of being a demon to be an angel, a perfect woman, and even more so in mind than in body, living in all honesty, full of the migniard charms and delights of love, in no way wicked, but most generous, assisting greatly the poor and suffering.

    Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "I swear by my eternal salvation, and by the holy Evangelists here present under my hand, to hold the woman suspected of being a demon to be an angel, a perfect woman, and even more so in mind than in body, living in all honesty, full of the migniard charms and delights of love, in no way wicked, but most generous, assisting greatly the poor and suffering.

    Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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