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- adjective Like a
gypsy .
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Examples
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'My teacher really took a shine to me because I looked kind of gypsyish,' says Oona.
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Oh, the general concepts appeal to me--the peasant skirts, the flowy shapes and gypsyish attitude, but it's all over-embellished and overwrought with beading and sequins and tacky lace.
busy, busy Holly 2006
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Oh, the general concepts appeal to me--the peasant skirts, the flowy shapes and gypsyish attitude, but it's all over-embellished and overwrought with beading and sequins and tacky lace.
Archive 2006-04-01 Holly 2006
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Gliding past a mirror, I was accompanied by someone beautiful: her hair filled with lights, eyes deep with plots, gypsyish dress a splash of color in the dusk.
Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977
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This Alberta was a gypsyish type, beautiful in certain lights and carelessly dressed, slouchy, surprisingly young.
Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977
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She exchanged pleasant nods with those she met -- all liked her gay, gypsyish face and easy manners -- and was in great good humor when the school-house was reached.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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There was a fat old pony named Tubby that drew the phaeton, and Tubby jogged along the pleasant country roads with them in a most delightfully gypsyish way.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson
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We were accompanied by several bands of a gypsyish-looking people, forming parts of a _cafilah_.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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As most have clear olive complexion, with rich color in the cheeks, arid lustrous black eyes, this headdress is surprisingly becoming, giving quite a gypsyish effect.
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My feet were trudging the macadam, though growing more gypsyish each moment, when the flash of a red leaf on
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