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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
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
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
She said that it was really fun with everyone all dressed up and dancing to good music played by a deejay instead of The Gypsies of the Allegheny.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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