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Mignon - What does it mean?

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mignon

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
  • * 1867 , Ouida, Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert , Volume II, Chapman and Hall (1867), page 194:
  • 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.
  • * 1867 , Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ishmael , John and Robert Maxwell (1867), page 119:
  • 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, a figure delicate to fragility, almost buried amidst the luxury of a matchless set of sables, seated in the lightest and most elegant of victorias, behind a pair of thoroughbred blacks.
  • * 1899 , Paul Leicester Ford, Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution , Volume 1, Dodd, Mead & Company (1899), page 64:
  • What she looked at was an unset miniature of a young girl, with a wealth of darkest brown hair, powdered to a gray, and a little straight nose with just a suggestion of a tilt to it, giving the mignon face an expression of pride that the rest of the countenance by no means aided.
  • * 1911 , Marcin Barner, " Britz of Headquarters", The Branford Opinion , 29 September 1911:
  • Exactly what my grandfather says," Dorothy retorted, fun flashing in that mignon face.
  • * 1987 , Persistence of Vision: The Journal of the Film Faculty of the City University of New York , Issues 5-8, page 68:
  • Starting a dance can be as fortuitous as its termination: a very short, mignon girl asks a tall guy to dance with her, then drops him a moment later without a word.
  • * 2002 , Seçil Büker, "The Film Does not End with an Ecstatic Kiss", in Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey (eds. Deniz Kandiyoti & Ay?e Saktanber), Rutgers University Press (2002), ISBN 0813530814, page 161:
  • Magazines dubbed her 'a girl for the salons', 'the pretty girl' of the Turkish cinema, perfectly suited to the role of a blonde, mignon girl who had been educated at the best schools. In later years she herself would say, 'I was cute and sweet, but unable to project the image of a sexy woman,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (French history) One of the court favourites of .
  • * 2003 , Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization , Harvard 2003, p. 330:
  • 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.
  • * 2005 , Rebecca Zorach, Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold , University of Chicago 2005, p. 220:
  • Many commentators claimed hyperbolically that, because of their outrageous fashions, it was difficult to tell whether the mignons were male or female.
  • (rare) A cute person; a pretty child.
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