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mignonette

1. a type of fine pillow lace
2. of a greyish-green colour; reseda

mignonette

any of various mainly Mediterranean plants of the resedaceous genus Reseda, such as R. odorata (garden mignonette), that have spikes of small greenish-white flowers with prominent anthers
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mignonette

of the former Saxony. [Flower Symbolism: Brewer Note-Book, 334]
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With briny mollusks on the mind, we canvassed chefs around the West Coast for a selection of easy-to-make mignonettes that take freshly shucked gems to the next level.
Caption: Aviary Wine & Kitchen likes to pair its rotating selection of oysters (served with pink peppercorn mignonette and freshly shaved horseradish) with the 2017 Clos d'Albizzi Cassis Blanc from Cassis, France.
The most successful Italian immigrant women artists-Mimi Aguglia, Gilda Mignonette, and Teresa De Matienzo--are described at length, and Frasca provides the extant details of their singing and acting careers in both Italy and America.
Of the Pacific variety, these were especially plump, served with a classic mignonette and the first bite was like dunking your head in the North Sea.
Next, arrange pickled verbena squares in a mosaic, and season with fleur de sel and black pepper mignonette. Carefully turn over squash leaves onto a plate being careful not to expose cheese.
The stars of the show at our meal were oysters on the half shell with cocktail and champagne mignonette sauces, the kind guaranteed to make this jaded traveller sigh.
In the real case, itself an all-too-common exemplar of a situation common in the age of sail, (5) the four survivors of an 1884 shipwreck aboard the racing yacht Mignonette, en route from England to Australia via the South Atlantic, found themselves starving and dying of thirst in a thirteen foot dingy.
(232) por potential common law analogies to this concept, see AW Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which It Gave Rise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984); Allan C Hutchinson, Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Garnish with an oyster, uni, ikura (or caviar), dill, and ponzu mignonette. Shingo Gokan is the head bartender at Angel's Share in Manhattan and the owner of Shanghai's new speakeasy-style lounge Speak Low.
Instead, the good lady wife, Kathryn, and I headed for the selection of seafood and plated up with oysters and poached Omani lobster with a splash of raspberry mignonette, as little Stan and his pals headed to the pasta station.
Other colorants from the natural world included cochineal (red), indigo (light and dark blue) and dyer's mignonette for yellow.
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