Mignonette

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