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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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Just hours after dropping jaws with a bold icy hair transformation at Paris Fashion Week, Teyana Taylor was back stateside with her signature jet-black pixie and fearless sense of style on Tuesday night.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
11 Mar. 2026
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As her version shows, the bob-pixie hybrid is ideal for embracing natural texture.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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All that vitriol over some poor, wide-eyed urchin just trying to climb an invisible ladder or descend some invisible stairs?—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Before long, the urchin’s scraps are not enough.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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While Minnelli, 79, pens darker moments of grief and addiction, her memoir is an overall romp through a life in showbiz, complete with plenty of witty zingers.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Until now, his detective franchise has been a romp.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamine. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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