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English
Etymology
From French mignard, akin to mignon. See minion.
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Adjective
migniard (comparative more migniard, superlative most migniard)
- (obsolete) soft; dainty
- 1907, Honoré de Balzac, J. Lewis (translator) "The Succubus", excerpted from Droll Stories
- "I swear by my eternal salvation and by the holy Evangelists here present under my hand, to hold the woman suspected of being a demon to be an angel, a perfect woman, and even more so in mind than in body, living in all honesty, full of the migniard charms and delights of love, in no way wicked, but most generous, assisting greatly the poor and suffering."
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