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mignon
UK /ˈmɪnjɒn/ US /mɪnˈjɑn/
name 3noun 2adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
brown, cute, enough, fine
VERB + MIGNON
didn't, essenced, having, know, said
MIGNON + NOUN
benedito's, restaurant
PREP.
in, out
ADV.
widely
Definitions
adj
1
Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
"Will you not wear these to-morrow?" said the King, offering one pair to Madame de Merœur; then, turning to her sister, he added, "I only hope yours are small enough for those mignon hands."
It was the deep-blue, dreaming, haughty eyes of "Miladi" that he was bringing back to memory, not the brown mignon face that had been so late close to his in the light of the moon.
noun
1
A cute or pretty person; a dandy; a pretty child.
“I wish the blow he dealt to that fine essenced mignon had beat his brains out.”
2
One of the court favourites of Henry III of France.
When the mignons, barefoot and clad in sacks with holes for their heads and feet, marched with Henry in a penitential procession, lashing their backs, one wit opined that they should have aimed their blows lower.
Many commentators claimed hyperbolically that, because of their outrageous fashions, it was difficult to tell whether the mignons were male or female.
name
1
A left tributary of the Sèvre Niortaise in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
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"Will you not wear these to-morrow?" said the King, offering one pair to Madame de Merœur; then, turning to her sister, he added, "I only hope yours are small enough for those mignon hands."
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It was the deep-blue, dreaming, haughty eyes of "Miladi" that he was bringing back to memory, not the brown mignon face that had been so late close to his in the light of the moon.
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Or failing that, it must be sweet to be a famous beauty, a golden-haired divinity, like that fashionable enchantress whom she had seen often on the boulevards and in the Champs-Elysées—a mignon face,
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“I wish the blow he dealt to that fine essenced mignon had beat his brains out.”
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When the mignons, barefoot and clad in sacks with holes for their heads and feet, marched with Henry in a penitential procession, lashing their backs, one wit opined that they should have aimed their
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Many commentators claimed hyperbolically that, because of their outrageous fashions, it was difficult to tell whether the mignons were male or female.
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