Tsingani

The saddle-makers and leather-workers of Persia are called Tsingani; they are, in their way, low caste, and a kind of gypsy, and it is supposed that from them are possibly derived the names Zingan, Zigeuner, Zingaro, etc., by which gypsies are known in so many lands.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

Out­side the Tsingani and those who maintain watch along the coast of Azzalle, no one remembers more.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

They were full-blooded Tsingani, with brown skin and liquid-black eyes, and both as tense as wires.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

She ran a lodging house for such Tsingani as did not disdain a woman who had lost her laxta, her virtue, and she took in laundry and changed her profit for gold coin, such as you have seen around the necks of half the Tsingani women on the road.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

He smiled a little to hear me use the Tsingani word for outsiders.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Even the Tsingani who trailed our company were made welcome on the outskirts of town, and villagers who would have hidden their valuables instead brought them gifts of food.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Musicians played set after set, trading places, and a group of Tsingani fiddlers drew the loudest applause.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Peerless; a gadjo pearl, the Tsingani had called Imriel de la Courcel.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

There too, life was stirring, cookfires lit, Tsingani and Yeshuites awaiting.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Any debt you owed to Hyacinthe and the Tsingani is settled.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003