What does gamine mean?
Gamine means A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl..
In her navy linen trousers and her, perhaps too tight, white jersey, Jennifer was determinedly gamine.
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.
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Gamine means A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl..
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In her navy linen trousers and her, perhaps too tight, white jersey, Jennifer was determinedly gamine.
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