gamine

Example Sentences

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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

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

French chanteuse and actress Juliette Gréco was the muse of existentialism during France’s post-war years, an untamed gamine all in black, whose rich, velvety alto gave her bleak laments an irresistible ardor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

“God Mode” blurs the lines of memory and reality as the world crumbles around a video game designer and the stunning gamine he meets in Australia.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2018

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

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart