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Street child
Answer for the clue "Street child ", 5 letters:
gamin
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Word definitions for gamin in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A street urchin; a homeless boy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gamin \Gam"in\, n. [F.] A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab. In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.' --L. Oliphant.
Usage examples of gamin.
She was twelve years older, a lot less the gamin, classy and self-possessed now, but it was Kate nonetheless.
I am sure that no one ever felt any repugnance on being introduced by Cervantes to the muleteers, contrabandistas, servants and serving-maids, and idle vagabonds of Spain, any more than to an acquaintance with the beggar-boys and street gamins on the canvases of Murillo.
There was a certain amount of the gamin element in the girl, at all events she invariably got on well with small boys.
A few gamins, however, were around, in their eyes a suppressed eagerness in anticipation of wonderful and exciting things to happen.
Then quiet again, though the gamins had startled and listened, like young deer, at the sound.
The million and a half of small boys of whom I have already spoken--mostly street gamins, owing to the lateness of the hour--sprang up from all about us.
Presently, he put down his fork and beckoned the smaller of the women in black, a platinum blond with darker eyebrows and gamin features.
Soon they were facing a circle of guns, and had to stand helplessly while one of the shipmen with a communicator hysterically reported the capture to Gamin Sher.