Talk:Gamine

message: Removed "Jean Simmons (b.1929), for example as Estella Havisham in David Lean’s 1947 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations" - if anything, Estella is the opposite of a gamine.  She is much too sophisticated and cruel to qualify.
What about Jean Simmons per se? She is frequently cited as such. --IXIA 22:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you think of any movies where she is gamine-ish? If so, go for it. Clarityfiend 05:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Estella?

message: This article appears to have vandalised by someone with a penchant from Spanish.
IXIA 15:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Jane Birkin. Gamine or no? -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 16:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Surely not anymore. But even at her beginnings, she wouldn't be considered (by French standards) a "gamine".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.132.239.86 (talk) 20:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jane Birkin]]? 

message: Removed "French for a young street Arabess" : false statement. 
Removed also "Gamin(e) is connected with the English “game” (in the sense of spirited)." : very dubious. The origin of the word in unknown. However there is two hypothesis : according to Gossen, the word is formed on the german stem gamm- ; according to Schmidt-Göbel, it comes from the german gemeiner(a simple soldier).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.170.23.29 (talk) 20:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lexicography 

message: If memory serves me correctly the word gamin was used in this book which was published around 1860, but I can only read the English translation so maybe that is not the orginal word used by the author
71.114.168.247 (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: yes - gamin is the male form of gamine, and you likely saw it describing the character, Gavroche, as well as generically in the chapter on Argot (language of the streets) The word 'gamin' also appears in Hugo's earlier work, Notre Dame de Paris (aka Hunchback of Notre Dame) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.241.162 (talk) 19:56, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: les miserables

message: The "Other gamines" section is just a list of skinny famous women.  A few (most notably Mia Farrow and Winona Ryder) are gimmes, but most of these names are questionable at best.  If anybody's up for some weeding... MrBook (talk) 21:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Other gamines" section

message: Although Jean Shrimpton's name appears in the 1960s section, I don't think she can be considered a gamine. I don't really see what was ever gamine about her, especially when you compare her to fellow 60s model Twiggy or to other 60s gamines such as Mia Farrow and Edie Sedgwick. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I never thought of Shrimpton as a gamine.
Also, in the Other Gamines section, I think that the names that are unsourced should be removed from the list. I have no doubt that some of those unsourced names (such as Ginnifer Goodwin and Olivia Williams) genuinely are gamine, but I have searched and cannot find any sources to back up the claim. --Lupine453 (talk) 15:46, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jean Shrimpton? And unsourced names in Other Gamines