gamine

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British actor Carey Mulligan’s soft eyes and fair complexion are typical of a kind of demure gamine who gets typecast as an underestimated heroine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

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

Famed for her gamine hair bob, scant black corset, diminutive torso but long legs, and her pink ostrich feather outfits, she became one of France’s best-loved artistes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2020

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

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart