travelling people

British  

plural noun

1. (sometimes capitals) Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves

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travelling people

"People are travelling, people are going back to the office although probably not back to where it was, and people are socialising. So we're seeing a big pick up in sales relating to those activities."

From BBC ● May 30, 2022

"It was mostly travelling people, sometimes from fairgrounds, who would have a projector and a roll of film and put it up in a theatre or village hall."

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2022

From the middle of the 1970s through to the end of the 1990s, circumstances had conspired to turn us into a travelling people.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2020

She later became an adviser on travelling people to the Secretary of State for Scotland and was a strong advocate of travelling culture.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2015

Time gathers to my name— Days dead are dark; the days to be, a flame Of wonder and of promise, and great cries Of travelling people reach me—I must rise.

From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir