gamin
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamin
From French, dating back to 1830–40, originally boy assisting a glassblower, young boy; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Mr. Givenchy was shocked when the doe-eyed, gamin beauty walked into his studio.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018
Ms. Chiquet, 54, was wearing a Nina Ricci peacock-feather print shirt, and jeans, with her hair in her signature gamin style.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2017
Ms. O’Hara-Baker gives her free-spirited Lilly a sense of gamin airiness.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2016
An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were soon nightclubbing together and meeting for weekly gossip lunches amid the palms of New York's Plaza Hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nobody occupied it now except, possibly, a passing tramp or the street gamin who had destroyed it.
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Raymond, Evelyn
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