gamine

gamine
/gam"een, -in, ga meen"/, n.
1. a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
2. a diminutive or very slender girl, esp. one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
adj.
3. of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.
[1895-1900; < F; fem. of GAMIN]

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