mignonette

Etymology

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

noun

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.
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adj

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