minaudière
French, noun/mi.no.djɛʁ/
minaudière is spelled M-I-N-A-U-D-I-È-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minaudière is a French feminine noun meaning “minaudière (bag)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of minaudier. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Femme qui minaude”.
What does minaudière mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineminaudière (bag)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of minaudier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme qui minaude.
noun: 1. Élégante petite pochette où les femmes peuvent ranger le minimum nécessaire, petit mouchoir, fards, poudres, rouge à lèvres pour corriger leur toilette durant leurs sorties.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of minaudière
- minaudières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minaudière?
- /mi.no.djɛʁ/
- \mi.no.djɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is minaudière in French?
minaudière appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).