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gamine

[ UK /ɡˈæma‍ɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a girl of impish appeal
  2. a homeless girl who roams the streets

How To Use gamine In A Sentence

  • Agamines are a really interesting group in terms of adaptation: we have scansorial, arenicolous and saxicolous species, the evolution of viviparity, and morphological transitions such as external ear loss. Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence
  • During the intermission I noticed Roberto, at the rail of one of the boxes, deep in conversation with a wiry, chignoned gamine.
  • Blond and gamine, they look so strikingly similar that they are often mistaken for siblings.
  • Amélie is the perfect holiday movie for so many reasons, including the obvious fact that it involves a cute gamine who eventually gets everything her little heart desires.
  • The quick mischievous sparkle of _gaminerie_ flashed up, transforming her for an instant -- "Ah, yes; and I can make you unhappy, too, it seems, by talking of marriage! The Younger Set
  • Their sweetness also happens to go well with the mild gaminess of the birds. Times, Sunday Times
  • She plays Julie, a stock character familiar to devotees of the art film: the adorably fey, nearly silent gamine looking for love.
  • She had the gift of a clear and musical laugh, and her small delicate face would wrinkle and pout into grimaces which gave to her a rather attractive air of _gaminerie_ -- Hillyard could find no word but the French one to express her on that evening. The Summons
  • 12: 37: Lanson Tang, the strapping deep-voiced lad from Potomac, nails "gaminerie" after his peers had missed three straight words. Spelling Bee semifinals, live
  • The lead actress played her part too well, shrinking through the episodes from gamine to gaunt.
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