gamin

Example Sentences

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By the end of the night, her gamin crop is plastered to her forehead with sweat; her smile is a little dazed, as if she isn’t quite sure what just happened.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Who was there that did not know Jean Laparde—from the President of France to the gamin of the gutters!

From The Belovéd Traitor by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)