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Saucy little girl
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gamine
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
'' Gamine may refer to:'' Gamine , the feminine form of the French word gamin , originally meaning female urchin. Gamine , an infamous 19th Century bordello in Hull, England Gamine , a term for female street children and for Colombian street children in ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At last my boyish figure had acquired some status and a more attractive description: gamine . ▪ I think a boyish, childlike figure - that of the gamine - was the one he preferred aesthetically.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small, slim, pert young girl," 1899, from French gamine , fem. of gamin .
Usage examples of gamine.
Her new surname was certainly apt, Banks thought, as there was definitely something of the gamine about her, a young girl with mischievous charm.
She looked fluffy and frolicsome, dressed a la gamine, showed a generous amount of smooth leg, knew how to stress the white of a bare instep by the black of a velvet slipper, and pouted, and dimpled, and romped, and dirndled, and shook her short curly blond hair in the cutest and tritest fashion imaginable.