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gamine

[gam-een, -in, ga-meen] / ˈgæm in, -ɪn, gæˈmin /
NOUN
tomboy
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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

Amélie is the innocently mischievous gamine who has whimsical fantasy adventures in Paris.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2020

Nancy Travis, a gamine at 56, brings sparkle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2018

Three years later he returned to his first love — gowns — starting a couture line and expanding his women’s ready-to-wear business to include boldly colored dresses and gamine daywear.

From New York Times • May 31, 2018

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

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart




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