chals

The maréchals-de-camp were the two brothers Viosmenil, celebrated for their beauty, and the marquis de

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

However, when I grows up I takes to my little knife -- by reason of the _chals_ -- aye, and uses it too, otherwise I might ha 'been tamed by now instead o' being free to choose.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

Nowhere else can the swarthy _chals_ find _gorgios_ so ready to purchase a doctored nag, or the dark-eyed _chis_ so easily cozen credulous villagers and simple servant-girls by the mysteries of

George Borrow in East Anglia 1904

So much so that frequently a gypsy who began (as they always do) by pretending that he understood nothing, and never heard of a gypsy language, ended by confessing that Hewitt could _rokker_ better than most Romany _chals_ themselves.

Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

Many of the _chals_ and _chis_ to be met with in “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye” were transferred to the pages of those works from the East Anglian heaths and fairsteads.

George Borrow in East Anglia 1904

I tell you what, brother, frequently as I have sat under a hedge in spring or summer time, and heard the cuckoo, I have thought that we chals and cuckoos are alike in many respects, but especially in character.

George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

'There ain't a-many Romany chals,' she said, 'as du'st marry Sinfi

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

I wish the chals 'ud stick as close to the chies.'

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

Hungarian Romany chals -- in which I include all Austrian gypsies -- travel annually all over Europe, but return as regularly to their own country.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

Did mandy ever chore a kani adre mi jiv? and what do the Romany chals kair o 'the poris, 'cause kekker ever dikked chichi pash of a Romany tan?

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863