Definitions
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- noun A
traditional horse-drawn wagon used byRomanichals (Romani people).
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Examples
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When dusk fell, a twig would snap underfoot as a visitor approached her vardo with care.
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Uneasy unless working, Beulah bound bunches of Michaelmas daisies to sell door to door, then set them in a basket and climbed back into her vardo.
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About her business in the morning, Beulah brought four tin bowls from underneath the caravanunderneath the vardo in the gypsy tongue.
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One bowl was used to wash tools used in the business of eating, one for the laundering of clothes, one for water that touched her body, and another for the cleaning of her vardo.
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Changing clothes in the cramped confines of the vardo had a number of things in common with crocodile wrestling in a phone booth, and when she came out she was hot and sweaty.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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He'd come around the back of the vardo, quiet as mice, and she hadn't seen him.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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“Look well at the Romany vardo,” he said, without turning.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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It was dark inside the vardo, though the light of dawn was seeping through the chinks in the closed shutters.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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“Look well at the Romany vardo,” he said, without turning.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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“Look well at the Romany vardo,” he said, without turning.
Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002
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