gypsies

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You can buy coffee and cake for about $7, or try one of the cocktails listed on brown paper menus: Whistling Gypsies, Hello Sailors.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

Beatrix Kolompar, one of Sztojka’s relatives, said that her people’s traditions “can distinguish us as Gypsies, as Roma.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021

Gypsies and travellers are arriving at Appleby in Cumbria as the annual horse fair gets under way for the first time since the pandemic.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2021

As a 12-year-old boy in Europe in the early 1930s, he ran away with a band of Gypsies, lived with them on and off for 10 years, and, decades later, wrote this luminous memoir.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020

So we sat and waited more, watching the Gypsies, the Gypsies watching back.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs