gamine
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nomen
[edit]gamine (plural gamines)
- A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
- A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.
Translations
[edit]a female street urchin; a homeless girl
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a mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman
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Adjective
[edit]gamine (comparative more gamine, superlative most gamine)
- (of a girl) Having a boyish, mischievous charm; elfish, typically with short hair. [from 20th c.]
- 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 54:
- In her navy linen trousers and her, perhaps too tight, white jersey, Jennifer was determinedly gamine.
- 2017 May 25, Peter Bradshaw, “L'Amant Double review – camp-classic status beckons for François Ozon's softcore silliness”, in The Guardian[1]:
- It’s a wildly dated-looking and derivative film, a quaint adventure in fantasised naughtiness, like Ozon’s teen prostitute fantasy Jeune et Jolie in 2013, which starred his lead actress here, Marine Vacth, in a similarly gamine role.
Translations
[edit]having a boyish, mischievous charm
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See also
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]gamine f (plural gamines, masculine gamin)
- kid (child)
Further reading
[edit]- “gamine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]gamine
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of gamen
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