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One who lives a footloose, carefree life is sometimes called a gypsy.
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It is estimated that there are between 250,000 and 300,000 Gypsies and Irish Travellers in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022
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
“I try to pass them on to many people so they can really get to know us, because all they know is that there are Gypsies, but they don’t know anything about us.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 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
So we sat and waited more, watching the Gypsies, the Gypsies watching back.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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