gypsy
Example Sentences
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My mum’s father’s a gypsy — full-on rode horses and wagons and s—.
From Los Angeles Times
In a series of press releases, DHS told a different story and justified firing “non-lethal” weapons on crowds by calling them rioters, looters, gypsies, tramps and thieves.
From Salon
Linda, 17, who is from a gypsy background and did not go to secondary school, joined the programme without any qualifications.
From BBC
Thomas arrives in a Romanian village, where he encounters a group of jolly gypsies who laugh at him and warn him and whose blood rituals he witnesses in the night.
From Los Angeles Times
“Theater people are vagabonds, wandering gypsies,” he writes.
From Los Angeles Times
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