gipsies's Usage Examples:

The gipsies occasionally settle down, forming separate camps or villages, but in most cases they prefer a wandering life.

The gipsies, who are mostly converts to the Orthodox Church, still, as a rule, cling to their vagabond existence, though their skill at all handicrafts finds them ready employment in the towns.

The alien element is small, consisting chiefly of Austro-Hungarians, gipsies, Italians and Jews.

Two festivals are held in the town, a less important one in October, the other, on the 24th and 25th of May, unique for its gathering of gipsies who come in large numbers to do honour to the tomb of their patroness Sara, contained in the crypt below the apse.

The gipsies are scattered widely throughout the Peninsula; they are found not only in wandering troops, as elsewhere in Europe, but in settlements or cantonments in the neighbourhood of towns and villages.

About threefourths of the inhabitants are Christian Serbs, and the remainder are chiefly Moslem Albanians, with a few gipsies, Turkish officials and about 3000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers.

Early in the 18th century the Scottish gipsies found a congenial home on the Roxburghshire side of the Cheviots; and at a later period the Scottish border became notorious for a hundred years as offering hospitality to runaway couples who were clandestinely married at Gretna Green, Coldstream or Lamberton.

(1895) 37,713, chiefly SerboCroatians, with small colonies of gipsies and Jews.

(1905) about 32,000, consisting chiefly of Slays (Serbs and Bulgars), Turks, Albanians and a few gipsies.

the despised Nowar, who correspond to the gipsies or tinkers of European countries.

Synonyms:

Gypsy, Rommany, gitano, Bohemian, gitana, Indian, Roma, Romany, Romani,

Antonyms:

artificial language,