gamin

Example Sentences

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Ms. Birkin’s gamin looks and carefree bohemian manner transfixed generations of the style-conscious and inspired the expensive and highly coveted Birkin bag from Hermès.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2023

Mr. Givenchy was shocked when the doe-eyed, gamin beauty walked into his studio.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

But while Ms. Tautou summoned Hepburn the mischievous gamin, Ms. Soo evokes Ms. Hepburn’s more stately and serene side, the princess in “Roman Holiday.”

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2017

Maurice Chevalier, though 67 and thicker of waist, can be as debonair, as gamin, as boulevardier as ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eugene Rhoeden, with his gay boldness and graceful impudence, his unconscionable aplomb, and his denial from principle of all personal dignity, is what is called in the Vienna slang a gamin.

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip