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gamine

/gam-een, -in, ga-meen/US // ˈgæm in, -ɪn, gæˈmin //UK // (ˈɡæmiːn, French ɡamin) //

伽利略,伽马,伽马人,伽蓝

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
    • : a diminutive or very slender girl, especially one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.

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Examples

  • She pointed to Maksymenko, whose delicate, gamine features make her seem especially frail.

  • They are both posh, pretty, gamine English girls blessed with serious eyebrows and a taste for the high life.

  • At Givenchy, designer Riccardo Tisci has settled into a house once defined by the gamine aesthetic of Audrey Hepburn.

  • This trend started last year when Diablo Cody and her glorious fempire—appeared, starring the impossibly gamine Lorene Scafaria.

  • He had not noticed it himself, but seemed to have eyes for nobody but Sidonie, a gamine.

  • He could not stop talking of the little gamine who was "his own picture."