Example Sentences

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Yetholm, on the Bowmont, near the Great Cheviot, has been the headquarters of Scottish gypsydom since the 17th century.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

My own fancy for gypsydom is faint and feeble compared p. 275to what I have found in many others. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Finally, the ordinary Dom calls himself a Dom, his wife a Domni, and the being a Dom, or the collective gypsydom, Domnipana. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

His real work in gypsydom was to appear later in Lavengro and The Romany Rye.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

I had called him pal, and this in gypsydom involves the shaking of hands, and with the better class an extra display of courtesy. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey