What is "gamins"

Usage examples of "gamins".

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.