gypsies
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In 1983, he wrote and directed “Angelo, My Love,” a drama inspired by and starring gypsies Duvall came to know in New York City.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
Looking on were the usual suspects of Rio’s Carnival scene: revelers dressed as folkloric characters, jaguars, gypsies and ‘bate-bolas’ – exuberant clowns in identical, elaborate outfits who travel in packs.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
The community is distinct from Romany gypsies and Irish travellers, but have faced many overlapping prejudices and inequalities, said Vanessa Toulmin, a professor at the University of Sheffield.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2021
Where else in America do you have a gold rush of opportunity amidst pockets of anarchy and lawlessness, gun slinging, farmers, miners, gypsies, vagabonds and saints?
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017
Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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