Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several Mediterranean plants of the genus Reseda, especially R. odorata, widely cultivated for its dense racemes of small fragrant greenish flowers.
- noun A sauce of vinegar, pepper, and minced shallots, usually served with oysters.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A well-known plant, Reseda odorata, native in northern Africa.
- noun Some other species of the genus Reseda.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant (
Reseda odorata ) 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. - noun coarse pepper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A plant (Reseda odorata) 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.
- noun A grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
- adjective Of a grey-green colour, like that of the plant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Either she would be very severe, flat back and front, or she would be tall, fair, dressed in mignonette green, name – Daisy, and smelling of rather sweetish lavender water.
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In order to break up extremes of colours you can always use masses of white flowers, or something like mignonette, which is in effect green.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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In the garden-borders the mignonette is a very inconspicuous little plant, and passes almost unnoticed beside the flaunting gaudiness of the dahlia or the showy spikes of the hollyhock, yet it is from that modest, low-growing, grey-green flower that comes the sweetness that perfumes the whole air, for the most optimistic person would hardly expect fragrance from dahlias or hollyhocks.
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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Plants which only live one year, such as mignonette, the sweet pea, and the poppy, take in just enough food to supply their daily wants and to make the seeds we shall speak of presently.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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"'Is that mignonette which is so oppressively fragrant?' she asked, lifting the bouquet to her nose.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828
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The best, though, is also the simplest appropriate, as "Desnuda" is Spanish for "nude" or "bare": raw Beau Soleil oysters with chipotle mignonette, shallot-tosazu gelee and other seasonal sauces.
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Claudio Papapietro for The Wall Street Journal Oysters, with shallot-tozazu gelee and chipotle mignonette.
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Yellow: champagne (19); lemon (22), and reseda (mignonette) (22);
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Yellow: champagne (19); lemon (22), and reseda (mignonette) (22);
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Inside the walls of outwardly ramshackle homes, roses crept alongside flowering myrtle, fragrant jasmine, mignonette, six-foot-tall scarlet dahlias stood next to orange, pink, and purple bougainvillea.
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