mignonnette

Noun

mignonette (countable and uncountable, plural mignonettes)

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.
   • After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!"1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2

   Synonyms:

   reseda

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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