gamin

Example Sentences

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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

It was great for the character, that gamin, slightly tomboyish look, without wearing boy’s clothes.”

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2016

Yet his sly comedy is wonderfully open to life's coincidences and consequences; it shows an uncondescending interest in children even as it is alert to their gamin guile.

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