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

This musical about a French gamin finding love, adapted by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie, will steal its final garden gnome.

From New York Times • May 18, 2017

A photo projected on the curtains that frame the playing area reveals a gamin, minxlike beauty: a little bit Carey Mulligan, a little bit Penelope Tree.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2013

She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Not exactly," muttered I, taken too suddenly to recover myself; "when I was a boy, a mere child—"I here by accident employed a Mexican word almost synonymous with the French "gamin."

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James