gamine

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Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Lefèvre, 77, looks pretty much as she did in 1992, when she arrived at the Opera: a redhead with a gamine cut and an unaffected style.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021

French chanteuse and actress Juliette Gréco was the muse of existentialism during France’s post-war years, an untamed gamine all in black, whose rich, velvety alto gave her bleak laments an irresistible ardor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

She, along with Hubert de Givenchy, helped to define Audrey Hepburn’s eccentric gamine.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2018

Her hair was in a gamine cut, streaked blond in a salon and currently showing dark roots.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart