Definitions for mignonettes

mignonettes mi·gnon·ette

Spelling: [min-yuh-net]
IPA: /ˌmɪn yəˈnɛt/

Mignonettes is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 578 anagrams from letters in mignonettes (eegimnnostt).

Definitions for mignonettes

noun

  1. a plant, Reseda odorata, common in gardens, having racemes of small, fragrant, greenish-white flowers with prominent orange anthers.
  2. a grayish green resembling the color of a reseda plant.

Origin of mignonettes

From French, dating back to 1690-1700; See origin at mignon, -ette

Examples for mignonettes

From springtime until autumn the presbytery was redolent of mignonette.

Her own room was on the shady side where pots of mignonette died within a week.

I put the pinks in my room and pinned on the mignonette because it matched my dress.

She identified it with her pain, and years after the smell of mignonette was intolerable to her.

Now it passed through the beds of violets, now through the mignonette.

mignonette it shall be if only you will write to inform me of everything in detail.

Hyacinth (aside, Fellar talks as if the animal were a pot of mignonette).

This mignonette is the chief source of the perfume which fills my cell.

Above all the fragrance came the unmistakable sweetness of mignonette.

The demure Quaker is like the peculiar fragrance of the mignonette.

Word Value for mignonettes
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