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Mignonette

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Mignonette may refer to:

Plants

  • Mignonette or Reseda (plant), a genus of fragrant herbaceous plants
  • Cultivars of butterhead-type lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. capitata), such as 'Green mignonette' and 'Red mignonette'
  • Mignonette tree, also called henna
  • Mignonette vine, Anredera cordifolia

Art, entertainment, and media

  • Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, a character in The Princess Diaries
  • Mignonette (album), a 2004 folk album by The Avett Brothers
  • Mignonette Kokin (1880-1957), vaudeville dancer and comedian
  • Mignonette, an 1874 comic opera by Blanche Reeves and Jesse Williams commissioned by Alice Oates

In cooking

  • Mignonette or poivre mignonette, roughly cracked or coarsely ground peppercorns in French cuisine, used for au poivre preparations and in bouquet garni
  • Mignonette sauce, a sauce of vinegar and shallots, typically used for oysters

Ships

  • Mignonette (yacht), built 1867, shipwrecked in 1884; cannibalism as a necessity defense for murdering crewmember Richard Parker was struck down by R v Dudley and Stephens to set an enduring legal precedent
  • HMS Mignonette, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
  • USS Mignonette (1861), a steam operated tugboat

Other uses

  • Mignonette (locomotive), a locomotive of the Great Western Railway
  • Mignonette, a type of nineteenth century lace made in Arras
  • Réséda, Mignonette day in the French Republican Calendar
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