gamin

Example Sentences

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The door is opened by Ms. Etienne, 75 — a wry, sinewy woman with a gamin haircut.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2019

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

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

Where the trail led close to the end of the big beaver dam he stopped abruptly and a last brief battle was fought between Scout and gamin.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)