gamine
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
a diminutive or very slender girl, especially one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.
Origin of gamine
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How to use gamine in a sentence
She felt that Kedzie was like one of those incorrigible gamines who throw things at kindly visitors to the slums.
We Can't Have Everything | Rupert Hughes
British Dictionary definitions for gamine
/ (ˈɡæmiːn, French ɡamin) /
a slim and boyish girl or young woman; an elfish tomboy
(as modifier): a gamine style of haircut
Origin of gamine
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