tzigane

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Tzigane, a word that refers to Romani people, is now considered derogatory.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Listen to Frances Andrade play Ravel's Tzigane Link to this audio In 1988 she met Levine Andrade, a Mumbai-born violinist and viola player, at a concert at St John's Smith Square in London.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013

Unquestionably, the star of the Homage was Suzanne Farrell, who was the focus of three ballets: Robbins' Concerto, Jacques d'Amboise's Alborada del Gracioso and Balanchine's Tzigane.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every whistle and note of every bird was as familiar to him as his own 38 Tzigane speech; and he could imitate them with exactness.

From Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace by Emerson, Alice B.

The next season she returned to Miss Russell's company, making so effective as to attract considerable attention the trifling part of Ninetta in "The Tzigane."

From Famous Prima Donnas by Strang, Lewis Clinton