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
For decades, she has worn her dark hair in a tousled, gamine crop and favored finely tailored clothes in neutral tones: tweed jackets, silk and cashmere sweaters, collared shirts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 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
Famed for her gamine hair bob, scant black corset, diminutive torso but long legs, and her pink ostrich feather outfits, she became one of France’s best-loved artistes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
Her hair was in a gamine cut, streaked blond in a salon and currently showing dark roots.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
