All in all, the book would make an excellent Christmas present to pop into that certain someone's minaudiere.

Crystal baguettes formed into rings surround the handle on a satin minaudiere.

"In that case, you won't mind putting that flora minaudiere aside for me until I can get in to pick it up?"

At this year's Academy Awards ceremony, for instance, her jeweled pink pig minaudiere received almost as much press attention as Sharon Stone's Gap turtleneck.

No, that wasn't a Judith Leiber minaudiere I was carrying out of a restaurant a while ago, just my dinner leftovers, in foil twisted to look like a swan.