Mignonette

Either she would be very severe, flat back and front, or she would be tall, fair, dressed in mignonette green, name – Daisy, and smelling of rather sweetish lavender water. ❋ Unknown (1920)

In order to break up extremes of colours you can always use masses of white flowers, or something like mignonette, which is in effect green. ❋ Ellen Eddy Shaw (N/A)

In the garden-borders the mignonette is a very inconspicuous little plant, and passes almost unnoticed beside the flaunting gaudiness of the dahlia or the showy spikes of the hollyhock, yet it is from that modest, low-growing, grey-green flower that comes the sweetness that perfumes the whole air, for the most optimistic person would hardly expect fragrance from dahlias or hollyhocks. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

Plants which only live one year, such as mignonette, the sweet pea, and the poppy, take in just enough food to supply their daily wants and to make the seeds we shall speak of presently. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)

"'Is that mignonette which is so oppressively fragrant?' she asked, lifting the bouquet to her nose. ❋ Caroline Lee Hentz (1828)

The best, though, is also the simplest appropriate, as "Desnuda" is Spanish for "nude" or "bare": raw Beau Soleil oysters with chipotle mignonette, shallot-tosazu gelee and other seasonal sauces. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Claudio Papapietro for The Wall Street Journal Oysters, with shallot-tozazu gelee and chipotle mignonette. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yellow: champagne (19); lemon (22), and reseda (mignonette) (22); ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inside the walls of outwardly ramshackle homes, roses crept alongside flowering myrtle, fragrant jasmine, mignonette, six-foot-tall scarlet dahlias stood next to orange, pink, and purple bougainvillea. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I started with oysters on the half shell with a mignonette sauce simple because I don't remember a meal I've eaten at the Milky Way without oysters. ❋ Sarah Lenz (2008)

Eric, being Eric ordered himself 3 oysters, and they too were well-trimmed: served on a bed of crushed ice with a tiny bowl of mignonette. ❋ Tannaz (2009)

The bloody Marys were notable too, for more than just their potency -- one was all sorts of savory, with mustard, horseradish, more mignonette, and giant blue-cheese-stuffed olives, and the other, called the Farmer's Market, was a cool refreshment, with muddled cucumbers and fresh dill. ❋ Tannaz (2009)

And the usage of lemon juice and mignonette is most ideal for eating oysters because saltiness/brininess is cancelled out by citric acid. ❋ E D B M (2009)

Usually a Champagne mignonette type of sauce tops the fresh oysters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A breeze had sprung up, swaying inward the muslin curtains, and bringing a fresh scent of mignonette and petunias from the flower-box on the balcony. ❋ Unknown (2007)