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† migniard, a. and n. Obs.
Also 7 mignard, miniard, Sc. minȝeard.
[a. F. mignard; related to mignon.]
A. adj. Dainty; mincing; caressing.
1599Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον iii. (1603) 107 In the forme of your meat-eating, be neither vnciuill..nor affectatlie mignarde. Ibid. iii. 115 In your language be plaine..eschewing..all mignard and effœminate termes. 1611Cotgr., Mignard, migniard, prettie, quaint, neat, feat; wanton; daintie, delicate. 1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass i. iv, Loue is brought vp with those soft migniard handlings. 1622A. Bysset in G. G. Smith Middle Scots (1902) 240 Neither have I vsed minȝeard nor effeminate, tanting, invectiue, or skornefull wordis. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 294 The milder sexe and miniard youth. 1653― Rabelais i. lvii. (1664) 250 Never were seene Ladies so proper and handsome, so miniard and dainty.
B. n. [= OF. mignarde.] A courtesan, mistress.
1616in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 416 She says the honour..of his embassy consists in three mignards, three dancers, and three fools. 1652Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 93 Idle Migniards, dinner hath waited for you till it is cold.
Hence † migniardly adv., daintily.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. lvii. (1664) 249 Their fists miniardly begloved. |