zingaro
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of zingaro
First recorded in 1610–20; from Italian zingaro, zingano; see Tzigane ( def. )
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Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult.
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