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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See gipser.

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Examples

  • Then, opening her gipsire, and before I could prevent, into those slender fingers she thrust a bright, new guinea; for a long moment his lordship stared down at the coin while I grew alternately hot and cold.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Alwyn looked disconcerted at this intelligence, but, drawing from his girdle a small gipsire, richly broidered, he prayed

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In her right hand the Morthwyrtha held her seid-staff, her feet were bare, and her loins girt by the Hunnish belt inscribed with mystic letters; from the belt hung a pouch or gipsire of bearskin, with plates of silver.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "I cannot mend the gittern, but I can refill the gipsire," said

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I would as lief Alwyn had struck me as offered me his gipsire, -- the ill-mannered, affectionate fellow!

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The lieutenant accordingly fell back to search Adam's gipsire, which contained only a book and a file, and then rejoined his captain, without offering molestation to Sibyll.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • With that the faithful servant thrust the broad pieces that yet remained of the king's gift into the gipsire Sibyll wore at her girdle, and then closed and rebarred the door before they could detain her.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "I cannot mend the gittern, but I can refill the gipsire," said

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • His dagger was suspended by a slight silver-gilt chain, and his girdle contained a large gipsire, or pouch, of embossed leather, richly gilt.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Had I known this, certes my gipsire had still been five nobles the richer.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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