1
: a girl who hangs around on the streets
2
: a small playfully mischievous girl
: of, relating to, or suggesting a gamine
Examples of gamine in a Sentence
Noun
a movie about a French gamine
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Vogue Shopping The Stripe Shirt Give a classic mariner tee a gamine twist with a pleated mini, sleek heels, and a mermaid-esque bag that subtly nods to sirens of the sea.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 30 May 2025
Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Orton, a gamine-ish fifty-one, who lives with her family in London, had dressed sensibly for November in New York.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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Noun
But that’s certainly not the case with the leads, especially Corrin, who can look chic, gamine and supple as a birch tree in anything, as proven by their frequent modeling and catwalk gigs for Miu Miu and their ability to make the kookiest of outfits work on the red carpet.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Vogue Shopping The Stripe Shirt Give a classic mariner tee a gamine twist with a pleated mini, sleek heels, and a mermaid-esque bag that subtly nods to sirens of the sea.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 30 May 2025
Adjective
Here, the riding jacket was a key theme, constructed in gleaming silken tweeds above gamine miniskirts and youthful skorts.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
Orton, a gamine-ish fifty-one, who lives with her family in London, had dressed sensibly for November in New York.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
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“Gamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamine. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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