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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
gipsy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A truerhearted lass never drew the breath of life, always with a laugh in her gipsylike eyes and a frolicsome word on her cherryripe red lips, a girl lovable in the extreme.
Ulysses 2003
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I cannot now write copiously; I have only time to tell you that I have passed many a fatiguing, but never a tedious moment; and all that I am afraid of is that I shall contract a gipsylike wandering disposition, which will make home tiresome to me: this, I am told, is very common with men in the habit of peregrination, and, indeed, I feel it so.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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The heath was fringed by a wild gipsylike camp of vast extent.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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a laugh in her gipsylike eyes and a frolicsome word on her cherryripe red lips, a girl lovable in the extreme.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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