gamine

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The big problem is not that Stern doesn't look like Audrey Hepburn or possess her gamine-like charm, since the musical doesn't require its female star to evoke Hepburn in any way.

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  1. noun An often homeless girl who roams about the streets; an urchin.
  2. noun A girl or woman of impish appeal.

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  • Alleyn wondered how many people had told her she laughed like a gamine and whether she ever forgot it. —  Overture to Death - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 08: 1939
  • Then, one night at a club, Chloe meets Angela, a goth gamine decked out in shiny PVC, lace, red velvet opera gloves and black motorcycle boots (kudos to Rebecca Sites for a perfectly apt costume design).
  • When all is said and done, "Memphis" may be most memorable as the breakout showcase for Glover, a winsome gamine with unforced emotional expressiveness, with which she invests her bluesy anthem "Colored Woman" with a bitter maturity beyond her years. —  Variety.com
  • She was roughly the same height as Adele, slender, and also, in looks, again like his sister, the type of the gamine. —  AmericanHeritage.com
  • The big problem is not that Stern doesn't look like Audrey Hepburn or possess her gamine-like charm, since the musical doesn't require its female star to evoke Hepburn in any way. —  TheaterMania.com
 

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