mignonnette

plural mignonnettes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of mignonette.

   The fragrance of mignonnettes, and a hundred flowers that recall Old England, fill the air.

   1857, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, page 21

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   The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.

   1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449

   Mr. Blueapron — who keeps his vinery so moist that his vines put forth roots, in mid air, the whole length of their new-wood branches — who manures his vine-borders with quarters of dead horse, and will not allow even a mignonnette plant to exhaust their richness — would look aghast if he were told to cultivate such compost as that.

   1855, Household Words, volume 30, page 228

   These are anemones, such as I put on your shelf yesterday morning, but these little starry mignonnettes did not grow wild, neither did those wax-balls in the middle.

   1863, Mrs. H. C. Gardner, Rosedale: A Story of Self-denial, page 187

   The Victoria Regia, the fuchsias, the mignonnettes, the orchids, were almost life-like in their fidelity.

   1873, Every Saturday, page 318

   A little forest of mignonnettes sets an example of soberness and fragrance, while that honest gilliflower looks like an old-fashioned English matron.

   1875, Friends Intelligencer, volume 31, page 493