gamine

[ 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, especially one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.

adjective
  1. of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.

Origin of gamine

1
1895–1900; <French; feminine of gamin

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How to use gamine in a sentence

  • He could not stop talking of the little gamine who was "his own picture."

    A Blue Devil of France | G. P. Capart

British Dictionary definitions for gamine

gamine

/ (ˈɡæmiːn, French ɡamin) /


noun
    • a slim and boyish girl or young woman; an elfish tomboy

    • (as modifier): a gamine style of haircut

Origin of gamine

1
from French

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