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mignardise
Also mignardize, migniardise, miniardise.
[a. F. mignardise, f. mignard: see prec.]
1. Caressing treatment; affected delicacy of behaviour or appearance. Also, a fancy cake or similar delicacy, usu. served at the end of a meal.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. 636 The disdainfull churlishnesse wherewith they beate them, are but mignardizes and affectations of a motherly favour. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iii. i, Entertaine her, and her creatures, too, With all the migniardise, and quaint Caresses, You can put on 'hem. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 233 The gracefulness of his hand and foot, with the quaint miniardise of the rest of his body. 1689H. Beeston in Vota Oxoniensia, No..Patches and spots, No Mignardize of face at all From Spanish paper or from English gall. 1931Belloc in One Hundred & One Ballades 16 Elderly women full of Mignardises—The latest fruit of Adam's ancient sin. 1935W. Stevens Let. 19 Dec. (1967) 303 Poulenc is a beautiful instance of mignardise in music. 1974S. Coulter Château i. xvii. 132 Their digestive systems were dealing with Brioche de foie gras,..ananas voilé, mignardises and fruit.
2. (See quot. 1950.) Also attrib.
1872Young Englishwoman Nov. 606/2 A band ornamented with hem-stitch and a mignardise braid. 1873Ibid. June 302/1 For this larger rosette commence with the centre star by joining the ends of a length of mignardise. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 111/2 Mignardise is used almost entirely to form narrow edgings for underlinen and children's dresses. Ibid. 112/1 Scalloped edging.—Formed of two rows of Mignardise braid. 1950‘Mercury’ Dict. Textile Terms 345 Mignardise, a variety of crochet formed by inserting narrow fine ribbons into the design as the heavy part of the pattern that would otherwise be formed of crochet. |