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