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gamine adjective [ ɡaˈmiːn ]

• (of a young woman) attractively boyish.
• "a picture featuring a gamine young model"
Similar: boyish, elfin, waifish, waiflike,

gamine noun

• a young woman with a mischievous, boyish charm.
• "a long-legged, short-haired gamine"
• a female street urchin.
• "I left school and fell in with some gamines"
Origin: late 19th century: French, feminine of gamin (see gamin).


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