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gamine

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gam⋅ine

  [gam-een, -in, ga-meen]
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–noun
1. a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
2. a diminutive or very slender girl, esp. one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
–adjective
3. of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.
Origin:
1895–1900; < F; fem. of gamin
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ga·mine   (gā-mēn', gām'ēn)   
n.  

  1. An often homeless girl who roams about the streets; an urchin.

  2. A girl or woman of impish appeal.


[French, feminine of gamin, gamin.]
ga·mine' adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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