0 used to describe a girl or young woman who is thin, has short hair, and is attractively like a young boy in appearance:
Her newly cropped hair gives her a fashionably gamine look.
1 a girl or young woman who is thin, has short hair, and is attractively like a boy in appearance:
a sweet-hearted gamine from the provinces
Audrey Tautou is the French gamine who plays the title role in Amelie.
They were both about 19 years old, she a moon-faced gamine with large eyes, he a lean-faced youngster who couldn't stop talking.
Both were a new kind of screen idol: the tarnished heartthrob and the playful gamine.
She effortlessly takes on personae, from modern gamine to retro siren to pale and haunting vamp.
