gamin
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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
Stanley wages a grouchy, sarcastic war on her credibility, only to find himself smitten by her gamin charm and persuaded by her claims of paranormal ability.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2014
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
How often, when I made a triumphant reply, did he half-mischievously wink at me, like a gamin de Paris, as if to say: "You got home all right that time."
From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil
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