/mee'noh dyair"/ ; Fr. /mee noh dyerdd"/ , n. , pl. minaudieres /-dyairz"/ ; Fr. /-dyerdd"/ .
a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman's cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.
Also, minaudiere .
[ 1935-40 (earlier in sense "coquette"); minaudière orig., coquette, person with affected manners, n. use of fem. of minaudier affected, equiv. to minaud ( er ) to have an affected manner (v. deriv., with -aud adj. suffix (see RIBALD), of mine facial expression, prob.
min muzzle) + -ier -IER 2 ]