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- adjective Like a
gipsy .
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Examples
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This area has a gipsyish sort of charm of its own.
The things people do for a bit of money! appleleaf 2009
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This area has a gipsyish sort of charm of its own.
Archive 2009-05-01 appleleaf 2009
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'Not young but handsome in a gipsyish sort of way.
A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962
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All should have a wild, picturesque gipsyish look.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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We lighted a little fire of sticks and fir-cones, so as to be as gipsyish as we could, and we sat round the fire.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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She came in, a brilliant, handsome young creature, in rough, well - worn walking attire, and a gipsyish hat.
Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Cherry was at eighteen, pretty in a gipsyish way, untidy as to hair, with round black eyes, high, thin cheek-bones marked with scarlet, and a wide, humorous mouth that was somehow droll in its expression even when she was angry or serious.
Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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But to little Eve Edgarton's cosmopolitan ears each familiar gipsyish word thus strangely transplanted into that alien room was like a call to the wild -- from the wild.
Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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As he speaks, GLADYS FREMAN, a dark gipsyish girl, and CONNIE
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The door is opened and FREMAN, a dark gipsyish man in the dress of a farmer, comes in.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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