Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Diminutive; delicate; dainty.
- noun In printing, a bastard body of type, measuring about 11¼ lines to the inch, smaller than minion and larger than nonpareil, in tended to be the equivalent of the French size “body six” of the Didot system: used by typefounders in the United States chiefly for combination borders planned on the Didot system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Print.) A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc.
- adjective obsolete Small; delicate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Alternative form of
mignonette . - noun typography A size of
type betweennonpareil andminion , used inornamental borders etc.
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Examples
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Mash the clove of garlic, rubbing thoroughly in a mortar and on this put the butter and flour, mixing well together, and gradually adding the salt and minionette pepper, and stir in two tablespoonfuls of cream.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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When a large quantity of butter sauce is required, put four ounces of fresh butter into a middle-sized stew-pan, with some grated nutmeg and minionette pepper; to these add four ounces of sifted flour, knead the whole well together, and moisten with a pint of cold spring water; stir the sauce on the fire till it boils, and after having kept it gently boiling for twenty minutes
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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The woodbines, the roses, the jessamines, the pinks and above all, the minionette with which it was surrounded, made the air one general perfume; every breeze came loaded with fragrance, stealing and giving odour.
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It went on very currently for two or three days, but last night at Vauxhall his minionette face seemed to be sent to languish with Lord R. Berties's.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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a pinch of rosemary, one clove of garlic, paprika, salt and minionette pepper.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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a few parsley roots, and to these add a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme, a little minionette pepper and two ounces of butter.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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* cellent honey; and in the gardens at CaftlevHnndy, wham there are a variety of fragrant Iflowen, pardcularly gmt quantities of minionette, fown on porpofe, honey Ins been got little inferior to Minorqa, both in colour and flavour.
super-kawy commented on the word minionette
Small and attractive.
May 2, 2009