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travelling people

British  

plural noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"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

For we are a most travelling people, we of this Island in this time; and, as the Prophet threatened, see ourselves, in so many senses, made "like unto a wheel!"

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas