gipsy

The word gipsy was always sufficient to excite my curiosity, and

George Borrow in East Anglia 1904

The song was, to the delight of the audience, the signature tune from his award-winning movie Underground - an almost insanely quick piece, in which a honking tuba leads the seven-piece band in a raucous musical rollercoaster which epitomises what has been described as their "gipsy techno-rock".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Mark Brown 2012

The gipsy is a tough, active fellow, but not very skilful with his weapon, so that Joe's weight and strength tell in a minute; he is too heavy metal for him.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

At first sight, you might have called her gipsy, Indian,

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

This puzzled him sorely, but suddenly recollecting that he had baptized another gipsy child "Britannia," without any hesitation he at once named the infant

The Parish Clerk 1892

The gipsy was a soldier, and on his being admitted, the Archduke asked him what he had to say.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

Leghorn hat over her ears, in what was called gipsy fashion.

The Carbonels Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"The word refers to the fact that this series offers even greater access and insight to the communities featured and the terms 'gipsy' or 'gypsier' are not being used in a negative context," a spokesman said.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Katherine Rushton 2012

"The word refers to the fact that this series offers even greater access and insight to the communities featured and the terms 'gipsy' or 'gypsier' are not being used in a negative context," a spokesman said.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Katherine Rushton 2012

In Emily Brontë's novel, the dark-haired Heathcliff is regularly described as a gipsy by other characters.

BrontëBlog Cristina 2010