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

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

Nancy Travis, a gamine at 56, brings sparkle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2018

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

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart