gamin

Example Sentences

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The door is opened by Ms. Etienne, 75 — a wry, sinewy woman with a gamin haircut.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2019

Mr. Givenchy was shocked when the doe-eyed, gamin beauty walked into his studio.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

This musical about a French gamin finding love, adapted by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie, will steal its final garden gnome.

From New York Times • May 18, 2017

Petra Kelly, 35, the feisty, fiery gamin who speaks as the uncrowned leader of the Greens, is hard to overlook.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nobody occupied it now except, possibly, a passing tramp or the street gamin who had destroyed it.

From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn