mignonette

Any of several Mediterranean plants of the genus Reseda, especially R. odorata, widely cultivated for its terminal, dense, spikelike clusters of very fragrant but inconspicuous greenish flowers.

[French, from feminine of mignonnet, dainty, pretty, from Old French, diminutive of mignon, lover, dainty.]

1. Coarsely ground white pepper.

2. See nouet.

[meen-yawn-NEHT] 1. A small, coin-shaped piece of meat, usually lamb. Also called noisette or medallion. 2. The term poivre mignonnette more commonly refers to coarsely ground white peppercorns. 3. Historically, a mignonnette was a small cloth sachet filled with peppercorns and cloves, used to flavor soups and stews much in the way a bouquet garni is used today.

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Mignonette may refer to:

• Mignonette sauce, a sauce of vinegar and shallots, typically used for oysters
• Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, a character in The Princess Diaries
• Mignonette (album), a 2004 folk album by The Avett Brothers
• Mignonette (locomotive), a locomotive of the Great Western Railway
• Mignonette (Reseda), a genus of fragrant herbaceous plants
• Mignonette (yacht), the subject of an English criminal case
• USS Mignonette (1861), a steam operated tugboat
• Mignonette day in the French Republican Calendar
• Mignonette (birthday flower)
• Mignonette (language of flowers)

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