minionette
English
editEtymology
editFrom minion + -ette (“forming diminutives”).
Noun
editminionette (plural minionettes)
- (plants) Alternative form of mignonette
- (uncountable, US printing, typography, dated) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
Synonyms
edit- (type size, UK): emerald
Translations
editAdjective
editminionette (comparative more minionette, superlative most minionette)
- Small; delicate.
- May 18, 1749, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq.
- His minionette face.
- May 18, 1749, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq.
References
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “minionette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)