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Recent Examples of gamine
Fast-forward to the following decade, when the gap-toothed gamine abandoned her heavy hand to embrace a more au naturel approach.
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Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
—Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 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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Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
—Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 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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Her pixie haircut, her irresistibly cheeky attitude behind the gas mask — the photo made its way everywhere, even to her home in Louisiana, to her grandfather’s general store in Gonzalez — the jambalaya capital of the world.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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Law Roach, who bills himself a style architect and has created countless memorable looks for his friend and client Zendaya, carried a 2004 book shaped minaudière from Chanel, although it might have been upstaged by his sweet, new pixie haircut.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Cala Gaetano is the most breathtaking of all, both in awe and anxiety, where slippery steps without any barriers bring you to a secluded cove speckled with urchins.—
Kristina Kasparian,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2026
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Sea urchin also comes as nigiri for $12, and sashimi for $24.—
Ella Gonzales
March 13,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There is no benign male version of tomboy.—
Adam Stanaland,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
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Being a tomboy accustomed to climbing trees and underwater harpooning with Papa, del Valle initially balked, but then gave it a whirl.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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
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Holloway’s second man-advantage marker in Friday’s romp cushioned the Blues’ lead to 6-2 just 82 seconds into the third period.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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Anyone else fall asleep about an inning into last night’s romp over Arizona, then speed-run a replay this morning?—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamine. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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