gypsy

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  1. One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in the 14th or 15th century, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
  2. Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
  3. To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.

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  1. the Indic language of the Gypsies
  2. a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
  3. a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment

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  • 'Because you're Labour and you're dark and you look like a gypsy, the Nazis would make you wash the pavements with your very best clothes,' she told me.
  • That was by no means a new idea to Maggie; she had been so often told she was like a gypsy, and "half wild," that when she was miserable it seemed to her the only way of escaping opprobrium, and being entirely in harmony with circumstances, would be to live in a little brown tent on the commons; the gypsies, she considered, would gladly receive her and pay her much respect on account of her superior knowledge. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
  • For the gypsy is parrot-like, a quaint pilferer, a rogue in grain as in green; for green was his favorite garb in olden time in England, as it is to-day in Germany, where he who breaks the Romany law may never dare on heath to wear that fatal fairy color These words are the key to the following book, in which I shall set forth a few sketches taken during my rambles among the Romany. —  The Gypsies
  • In English gypsy, the same words are expressed by Rom_, romni_, and romnipen_. —  The Gypsies
  • Come, come," said she, observing that the gypsy was about to speak, "we have had enough of nonsense; whenever I leave this hollow, it will be wearing my hair in my own fashion." —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
 

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