1
: a girl who hangs around on the streets
2
: a small playfully mischievous girl
: of, relating to, or suggesting a gamine
Examples of gamine in a Sentence
Noun
a movie about a French gamine
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James Mercadante, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2025
Still the signature shade of blonde (a big part of her transformation for the role in Wicked), Grande ditched her side part for short, gamine bangs swept to the side a la Audrey Hepburn.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2025
Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Orton, a gamine-ish fifty-one, who lives with her family in London, had dressed sensibly for November in New York.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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Noun
In 1954, newcomer Audrey Hepburn won for her gamine role as royalty playing hooky in Roman Holiday, while the 1955 awards honored an entirely different type of performance, Method actress Eva Marie Saint's hyperrealistic turn in On the Waterfront.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2025
Still the signature shade of blonde (a big part of her transformation for the role in Wicked), Grande ditched her side part for short, gamine bangs swept to the side a la Audrey Hepburn.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Orton, a gamine-ish fifty-one, who lives with her family in London, had dressed sensibly for November in New York.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamine. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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