Get to know Gamine better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like girl or miss.
Gamine in a sentence
Gamine meaning
- A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
- A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.
Using Gamine
- The main meaning on this page is: A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. | A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman.
- Useful related words include: street urchin, guttersnipe, girl, miss.
Context around Gamine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gamine
- In this selection, "gamine" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, project, tests, day, won, tested and athleticism stand out and add context to how "gamine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include positive tests gamine won the and same day gamine tested positive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gamine" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gamine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The same day Gamine tested positive at Oaklawn, another Baffert horse also failed a postrace test. (16 words)
Between her two positive tests, Gamine won the Acorn Stakes at Belmont and the Test Stakes at Saratoga, both in New York. (22 words)
Leading the gender-fluid Kit Kat Girls and Boys, a winning ensemble, Park’s Emcee attacks Katie Spelman’s wonderful choreography with the gamine athleticism of a Johnny Weir, and a very similar fashion sense. (35 words)
Kate Norris of the urban winery Division Winemaking Co. and the Rhone-inspired winemaking project Gamine will pour flights of her signature "delicious wines made for good times," paired with ricotta and marmalade crostini from Sebastiano's Deli. (38 words)
Leading the gender-fluid Kit Kat Girls and Boys, a winning ensemble, Park’s Emcee attacks Katie Spelman’s wonderful choreography with the gamine athleticism of a Johnny Weir, and a very similar fashion sense. (35 words)
Between her two positive tests, Gamine won the Acorn Stakes at Belmont and the Test Stakes at Saratoga, both in New York. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
Kate Norris of the urban winery Division Winemaking Co. and the Rhone-inspired winemaking project Gamine will pour flights of her signature "delicious wines made for good times," paired with ricotta and marmalade crostini from Sebastiano's Deli.
Between her two positive tests, Gamine won the Acorn Stakes at Belmont and the Test Stakes at Saratoga, both in New York.
The same day Gamine tested positive at Oaklawn, another Baffert horse also failed a postrace test.
Leading the gender-fluid Kit Kat Girls and Boys, a winning ensemble, Park’s Emcee attacks Katie Spelman’s wonderful choreography with the gamine athleticism of a Johnny Weir, and a very similar fashion sense.