gypsies
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It is estimated that there are between 250,000 and 300,000 Gypsies and Irish Travellers in the UK.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2022
A bearded, burly man, Williams was a talented musician who wrote songs, sang and played a Fender Stratocaster guitar in bands, including the Crazy Texas Gypsies.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022
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
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
These people included Communists; political leaders; Polish intellectuals; homosexuals; and itinerant people, whom the Nazis called Gypsies.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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