page_title: Gamine
hierarchical_section_title: Gamine
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Audrey Hepburn from the trailer for the film Roman Holiday.
context_page_description: A gamine is a slim, elegant young woman who is, or is perceived to be, mischievous, teasing or sexually appealing.
  The word gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child. It was used in English from about the mid-19th century, but in the 20th century, came to be applied in its more modern sense.
context_section_description: A gamine is a slim, elegant young woman who is, or is perceived to be, mischievous, teasing or sexually appealing.
  The word gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child. It was used in English from about the mid-19th century (for example, by William Makepeace Thackeray in 1840 in one of his Parisian sketches), but in the 20th century, came to be applied in its more modern sense.
caption: Audrey Hepburn has been cited as the epitome of a gamine.
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