gamin

Example Sentences

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By the end of the night, her gamin crop is plastered to her forehead with sweat; her smile is a little dazed, as if she isn’t quite sure what just happened.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

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

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

"Oh no; they would do nothing so roturier—English and Americans——" "They would not know us; you forget what a good gamin my noble lady makes."

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis