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
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
An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were soon nightclubbing together and meeting for weekly gossip lunches amid the palms of New York's Plaza Hotel.
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
