1
: a girl who hangs around on the streets
2
: a small playfully mischievous girl
: of, relating to, or suggesting a gamine
Examples of gamine in a Sentence
Noun
a movie about a French gamine
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 7 May 2024
The ‘gamine fille’ appeared here and there, such as a camisole style dress, go-go shorts, and a grey flannel bralette over a turtleneck paired with a skirt.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Orton, a gamine-ish fifty-one, who lives with her family in London, had dressed sensibly for November in New York.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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Noun
Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo are Patricia and Michel, the gamine and the criminal, simultaneously artless and deliberate.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 7 May 2024
The ‘gamine fille’ appeared here and there, such as a camisole style dress, go-go shorts, and a grey flannel bralette over a turtleneck paired with a skirt.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Adjective
Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Orton, a gamine-ish fifty-one, who lives with her family in London, had dressed sensibly for November in New York.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamine. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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