muguet

Borrowed from French muguet.

muguet (plural muguets)

1. Lily of the valley.
   • 1997 June 30, N. Groom, New Perfume Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 193:

     Muguet, a perfume obtained from the highly scented flowers of Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis), a small […]

   • 2021 April 20, Hilary Miflin, The Green Fuse: …our deep connection with the power of plants, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 12:

     ... flowers and spurges – companion planting at its best. In the easternmost corner behind the gate, she had planted a large clump of muguets, Christmas hellebores and a large yucca plant. Down the valley beyond this garden was her orchard […]

   • 2021 November 9, Sarah McCartney, Samantha Scriven, The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, →ISBN, page 85:

     Diorissimo by Dior / Still the muguet to beat / Perfumer[:] Edmond Roudnitska / ££ / Diorissimo wasn't the first lily of the valley (muguet) fragrance, but very few of us would bet against it. In the 1940s, Edmond Roudnitska created some downright dirty chypre fragrances: […] Five minutes later, it settles down to pure, clear, unmistakable muguet and stays like that for hours.

Borrowed from French muguet.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [muˈɣɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [muˈɣət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [muˈɣet]

muguet m (plural muguets)

1. (botany) lily of the valley

   Synonym: lliri de maig

2. (pathology) thrush (oral candidiasis)

• “muguet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Old French muguete, muguede (as in nois muguete (“nutmeg”)), from Latin muscāta, feminine of muscātus (“musky”), from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian mwšk' (/⁠*mušk⁠/, “musk”), ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland being similar.

• IPA^(key): /my.ɡɛ/

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muguet m (plural muguets)

1. lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
2. (medicine) thrush (oral yeast infection, oral candidiasis)

   Synonyms: candidose, blanchet

3. (dated) dandy

• → Catalan: muguet
• → Turkish: müge

• “muguet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.