Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Gipsy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gypsy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
Gypsy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The show takes as its inspiration gypsy tales and music from Central Europe; "zingaro" means gypsy in Spanish and Italian.
Time Off 2008
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W.at of John Joyce's friend W.atherup misnamed W.therup, or Charles W. Poole as "Pooles," or the Zingari cricket club as "zingaro"?
'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange Rose, Danis 1998
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Your old friend the zingaro, the gitano who rode about
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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Your old friend the zingaro, the gitano who rode about Spain, to say nothing of Galicia, with the Greek Buchini behind him as his squire, had a hand in bringing them about; there are many brave Spaniards connected with the present movement who took Bibles from his hands, and read them and profited by them. "
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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