gamine

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British actor Carey Mulligan’s soft eyes and fair complexion are typical of a kind of demure gamine who gets typecast as an underestimated heroine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Lovette may seem nonthreatening: She’s tiny and gamine with a sunny demeanor, but she has a rebellious side, too.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022

She, along with Hubert de Givenchy, helped to define Audrey Hepburn’s eccentric gamine.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2018

Her hair was in a gamine cut, streaked blond in a salon and currently showing dark roots.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart