gamin
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamin
From French, dating back to 1830–40, originally boy assisting a glassblower, young boy; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Mr. Givenchy was shocked when the doe-eyed, gamin beauty walked into his studio.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018
This musical about a French gamin finding love, adapted by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie, will steal its final garden gnome.
From New York Times • May 18, 2017
Ms. O’Hara-Baker gives her free-spirited Lilly a sense of gamin airiness.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2016
Maurice Chevalier, though 67 and thicker of waist, can be as debonair, as gamin, as boulevardier as ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Not exactly," muttered I, taken too suddenly to recover myself; "when I was a boy, a mere child—" I here by accident employed a Mexican word almost synonymous with the French "gamin."
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
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