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Recent Examples of gamine
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
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Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2025
And yet Birkin was far from the self-reliant gamine embodied by Clara Bow.
—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
How did Chanel maintain her gamine figure while regularly indulging there?
—Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
But that’s certainly not the case with the leads, especially Corrin, who can look chic, gamine and supple as a birch tree in anything, as proven by their frequent modeling and catwalk gigs for Miu Miu and their ability to make the kookiest of outfits work on the red carpet.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2025
And yet Birkin was far from the self-reliant gamine embodied by Clara Bow.
—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
How did Chanel maintain her gamine figure while regularly indulging there?
—Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
But that’s certainly not the case with the leads, especially Corrin, who can look chic, gamine and supple as a birch tree in anything, as proven by their frequent modeling and catwalk gigs for Miu Miu and their ability to make the kookiest of outfits work on the red carpet.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamine
Noun
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Even after so long, Camilla was still moved at the sight of her, so graceful and petite, with that thin, waif-like face.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Cleverbot veers from sounding like a winsome waif to coming across as a drunk, smart-alecky fifteen-year-old who talks in non sequiturs.—
Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This natural pixie on Jodie Turner-Smith is a timeless classic.—
Krista Carter,
InStyle,
27 Jan. 2026
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At the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, her pixie cut entered bob territory, long and flipped with bangs to match.—
Essence,
Essence,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In Victorious Cupid, Caravaggio demolished Renaissance ideals of the chubby, celestial putto by depicting a young god with the body of an Adonis and the face and feet of a cheeky street urchin.—
Tobias Grey,
Air Mail,
27 Dec. 2025
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After the multi-year marine heatwave hit the North Pacific in late 2013, warmer ocean temperatures that followed not only stressed kelp but also worsened the spread of sea star wasting disease that wiped out sunflower sea stars — one of the purple urchin’s main predators.—
Chaewon Chung
December 11,
Sacbee.com,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Diane was a quirky, sociable tomboy with a natural gift for making people laugh.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
26 Dec. 2025
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The film centers on three tomboys, Mihrije, Sina and Jasna, best friends in Slovenia, who refuse to conform to the conservative norms of their communities, and traditions such as arranged marriages.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Rudeness is of course still frowned upon, and sometimes hoydens behaved in ways that are rude by today’s standards – a girl who pushed another out of her seat at school was a hoyden in 1865.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 May 2018
Noun
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In the film, Sandler compares listening to the bits — an elderly Jew talking about his romps through history — to hearing his own Jewish uncles talk in Florida.—
Stephen Silver,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Jan. 2026
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Nala Williams and Kennedy Lee had double-doubles and six reserves played more than 10 minutes as San Diego State women’s basketball team extended its winning streak to 11 straight games with a 94-66 wire-to-wire romp over San Jose State on Saturday afternoon at Viejas Arena.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamine. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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