Gypsies

Cultural  

1. A nomadic people who originated in the region between India and Iran and who migrated to Europe in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Most now live in Europe and the United States. Their language is called Romany. Thousands were murdered in the holocaust.

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One who lives a footloose, carefree life is sometimes called a gypsy.

Example Sentences

You can buy coffee and cake for about $7, or try one of the cocktails listed on brown paper menus: Whistling Gypsies, Hello Sailors.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

Beatrix Kolompar, one of Sztojka’s relatives, said that her people’s traditions “can distinguish us as Gypsies, as Roma.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021

Along with his band The Gypsies, Sunil wrote and performed songs with catchy tunes and clever lyrics, often about Sri Lankan life and politics.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2021

As a 12-year-old boy in Europe in the early 1930s, he ran away with a band of Gypsies, lived with them on and off for 10 years, and, decades later, wrote this luminous memoir.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020

These people included Communists; political leaders; Polish intellectuals; homosexuals; and itinerant people, whom the Nazis called Gypsies.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti