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migniard

/ˈmɪnjɑː(ɹ)d/

migniard adjective: soft; dainty.

Adjective

migniard (comparative more migniard, superlative most migniard)

  1. (obsolete) soft; dainty
    • Those soft migniard handlings1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
    • "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...1907, Honoré de Balzac, J. Lewis (translator) "The Succubus", excerpted from Droll Stories

Forms of migniard

comparativemore migniard
superlativemost migniard

Origin of migniard

From French mignard, akin to mignon. See minion.

Questions about migniard

What does migniard mean?
Migniard means soft; dainty.
What part of speech is migniard?
Migniard is an adjective.
How do you pronounce migniard?
Migniard is pronounced /ˈmɪnjɑː(ɹ)d/.

Words near migniard in the dictionary

  1. Mignano
  2. Mignanos
  3. mignardise
  4. mignardises
  5. Migneintian
  6. migniard
  7. Mignogna
  8. Mignognas
  9. Mignola
  10. Mignolas
  11. mignon

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