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. Chiquet, 54, was wearing a Nina Ricci peacock-feather print shirt, and jeans, with her hair in her signature gamin style.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2017

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

"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