(n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .
(2) Samantha Barks (the Les Misérables movie) stars as the Gallic gamine with Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal, Peter and the Starcatcher) as her fanciful love interest.
(3) That's all well and good for gamine young things like you, but for the rest of us who don't want to look like Grayson Perry, any thoughts?
(4) Her quiet lifestyle, gamine looks and infrequent personal appearances have fuelled her reputation as a misanthropic genius.
(5) Paulette Goddard as the gamin has taken kindly to his style.
(6) Sure, the models might look all gamine and cute in their "boyfriend" jeans in magazines ("I'm so thin my jeans are barely clinging to my hipbones!")
(7) As it is, it won the Grand Prix, jointly with the Dardenne brothers' Le Gamin au Vélo, which was a powerful and involving work, but not obviously a progression and development from their earlier films.
(8) As Olympic fever will take over next year, the Dardennes here had lovely Cécile de France in Le Gamin au Vélo , and I hear of plans for two British cycling films: James Erskine is recounting the life of Italian Tour de France winner Marco Pantani and Shane Meadows is making a biopic of 1960s British cyclist Tom Simpson.
(9) But where Tautou, gamine and Gallic, belongs to a highly bankable tradition, Sy is a one-off, at least for now.
(10) Two different styles of street life are presented--the gamines and chupagruesos.
(11) Cannes favourites the Dardennes brothers, two time recipients of the Palme d'Or, shared the Grand Prix for Le Gamin au Velo, a neo-realist tale of bad parenting and bike-riding in Belgium.
(12) Rodin's 'Thinker' with a xylophone of ribs and a gamine haircut.
(13) The programmers seemed to group themes in batches this year, so the early days of the festival had female film-makers, then we moved through a couple of days of sex and paedophilia (bordello movie The House of Tolerance , Austrian film Michael ), before fathers and sons took over ( Tree of Life , Le Gamin au Vélo , Footnote ), then French politics ( La Conquête , Pater ), then depression ( The Beaver , Melancholia ), antisemitism ( The Beaver , Melancholia ) and, eventually, sexual politics (Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In , The Source ).
(14) And you've seen even more full-page magazine ads featuring the same ultra-long-and-thin gamines wearing that outfit, or part of it, trying to sell you jewellery, shoes or designer bags.
Tomboy
Definition:
(n.) A romping girl; a hoiden.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a gymnast first, a 'garçon manqué' as she says, a tomboy with cropped hair, awkward and angular.
(2) Why did Jessica and Holly - the dark-haired girl and the blonde, the 'tomboy' and the 'angel', the swimmer and the majorette - die that evening?
(3) Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of the sexism Page has encountered is that pretty much as soon as she came to international attention in Juno, rumours started about her sexuality, simply because, to quote one well-known accusatory blogpost in 2008, "she certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy and if you Google 'Ellen Page boyfriend' , not a whole lot comes up."
(4) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
(5) Hodder will publish 10 contemporary Famous Five books in August, starting with Five on a Treasure Island, originally published in 1942, in which siblings Julian, Dick and Anne first spend the summer with their tomboy cousin George (Georgina, by rights) and her dog Timmy, and hunt for treasure on Kirrin island.
(6) She now appears slimmer, older and somewhat sexualised, in comparison to the teenage tomboy from last year's Oscar-winning animation.
(7) As a child growing up in the 1970s I was an athletic tomboy and, aged 10, I was given a nosebleed by a boy in the school playground.
(8) "When I was a kid, my parents were called in by the headmaster at my school because I was such a tomboy and spent so much of my time playing with the boys that he was afraid that, as we all reached puberty, I would be abandoned.
(9) She was, instead, a confident tomboy, who, she admitted later, yearned to cut her hair short.
(10) Klein says she grew up as a tomboy that turned into a tom man.
(11) In all fairness, no one can speak of transsexual or transvestite children as has been done in the past, but only of feminine or effeminate boys and tomboy girls.
(12) She's tough without being a tomboy and attractive without being a sophomore although she has elements of both.
(13) She gives a history of remarkable tomboyism during her latency years and increasing withdrawal from peers and family during early adolescence.
(14) Six of these items (playing with boys' toys, playing with girls' toys, dressing up in men's clothes, dressing up in women's clothes, paying attention to women's fashions, and being considered a tomboy) revealed statistically significant differences between the heterosexual and homosexual females.
(15) The women with anomalous dominance (consisting of left-handed and ambidextrous as well as right-handed women with first-degree non-right-handed relatives) were compared to women with standard dominance (right-handed women with all right-handed first-degree relatives) on the Bem Test of Sex Role Identity and a tomboy scale.
(16) Across three samples, handedness classifications were related to both tomboy characteristics and sex role identification.
(17) However, studies have also shown that while these exposed girls exhibited long-term tomboyism, their gender identity was feminine.
(18) And Twitter is flinging snowballs too: Tom Boyer (@tomboyer) @ kidweil FIFA should be embarrassed by letting this USA CRC game start in the first place.BPL games aren't played in this mess.
(19) Four of them were reared as girls and differentiated a female gender identity with tomboyism.
(20) Tutin was mesmerising as this uncomprehending, terrified middle-aged Sleeping Beauty who still perceived herself as a tomboy teenager, and this should have given a boost to her career.