Crossword clues for gamine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small, slim, pert young girl," 1899, from French gamine, fem. of gamin.
Wiktionary
a. (of a girl) having a boyish, mischievous charm; tomboyish. n. 1 a (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl 2 a mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman
Wikipedia
A gamine is a slim, often boyish, elegant young woman who is, or is perceived to be, mischievous, teasing or sexually appealing.
The word gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child. It was used in English from about the mid-19th century (for example, by William Makepeace Thackeray in 1840 in one of his Parisian sketches), but in the 20th century, came to be applied in its more modern sense.
'' 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 general
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.