gamines

Orphaned kids without anywhere to go, the gamines were a public menace to be avoided.

Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left? 2010

Bedraggled street urchins and drug addicts known as gamines roamed the area.

Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left? 2010

Orphaned kids without anywhere to go, the gamines were a public menace to be avoided.

Mongabay.com News 2010

Bedraggled street urchins and drug addicts known as gamines roamed the area.

Mongabay.com News 2010

These 'gamines' range from six-year-olds to teenagers, and they are unloved, unwanted, beaten, robbed, abused, raped and murdered.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Marilyn Monroe is one of the titular gamines, working the line alongside her own mother (Adele Jergens, all of nine years older than her screen daughter).

VinceKeenan.com 2009

In downtown, merchants grew fed up with these gamines and one would hear stories about so-called "social cleansing," a euphemism for physical extermination.

Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left? 2010

This project cares for children living on the streets but also runs a pioneering programme to prevent other children from becoming "gamines."

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

It was there, too, that young servant girls newly arrived from Brittany or elsewhere served their apprenticeship, so that one had the two extremes: gamines of sixteen, over whom the pimps quarreled, and ancient harpies, who were very well able to defend themselves.

Maigret's Memoirs Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

She felt that Kedzie was like one of those incorrigible _gamines_ who throw things at kindly visitors to the slums.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914