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

“I try to pass them on to many people so they can really get to know us, because all they know is that there are Gypsies, but they don’t know anything about us.”

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