gamin

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

Ms. O’Hara-Baker gives her free-spirited Lilly a sense of gamin airiness.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2016

It was great for the character, that gamin, slightly tomboyish look, without wearing boy’s clothes.”

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2016

By 1918 he was Hollywood's most popular male actor, outranking Charlie Chaplin; the top female was Mary Pickford, the cagey gamin called America's Sweetheart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where the trail led close to the end of the big beaver dam he stopped abruptly and a last brief battle was fought between Scout and gamin.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)