Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The life and habits of a Gipsy.
- noun Gipsies collectively.
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Examples
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As for Borrow, he was prepared to derive stimulus from it just as long as it maintained the unquestioning attitude of Jasper Petulengro when he expressed the sentiments of gipsydom in the well-worn "Lor ', brother, how learned you are!"
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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He was the very ugliest brute that was ever nursed in gipsydom.
Carmen Prosper M��rim��e 1836
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"I was weak enough to call her back, and I promised to let the whole of gipsydom pass in, if that were necessary, so that I secured the only reward I longed for.
Carmen Prosper M��rim��e 1836
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