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Meanings of gipsies in English
Ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas.
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Examples for "roma"
Examples for "roma"
1
Methods: We carried out a national vaccination coverage survey of Roma children.
2
I first came across Roma people about 20 years ago in Rome.
3
The Procurator General sat in front of Roma and leaned slightly forward.
4
Real Madrid, another possible suitor, have yet to make contact with Roma.
5
Fellow Italian club AS Roma is controlled by an American investment group.
1
The act opens in the gypsy camp in the suburbs of Presburg.
2
The gypsy wagons had all stopped in the middle of the road.
3
One day some years ago, an old gypsy came to my house.
4
She belonged to one of the principal gypsy families in this country.
5
He consulted a standdard work to learn more about the gypsy moth.
1
In them are local islanders - 'water gypsies' my friend calls them.
2
From below them came the notes of the waltz the gypsies played.
3
They were sometimes considered to be the gypsies of the Red men.
4
I shan't give it up for all the gypsies in the world.
5
A lot of the other gypsies were envious of her-ofher power.
1
The two conversed in Romany, since the Servian did not speak English.
2
I can't think of another Romany gypsy who has done so well.
3
Even if it was just a simple Romany woman, she thought uncharitably.
4
At the Romany exclamation Ingolby swept the man with a searching look.
5
One of the spells Doctor Romany gave him is a bullet-deflecting charm.
1
Nina Romani belongs to the world, and follows the ways of the world.
2
The story of the Battle of Romani can be read elsewhere.
3
Romani says he fell in love with indigenous music in 2005.
4
I will wait alone at the Villa Romani till it comes.
5
First they tried to break down our defences between Romani and the sea.
1
They never called him "tzigan" because he was fairer than they were.
2
He and Magiere had rarely traveled the mountains, but he'd heard enough of the Tzigan to be wary.
3
"Tzigan, catch up that tall gray mare for Lady Elayne."
4
"You are mountain nomads... the Tzigan?"
1
I first came across Roma people about 20 years ago in Rome.
2
She is of the Roma people and tells fortunes, yes.
3
More than half the Roma people in Ireland are living in consistent poverty, a study has found.
4
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he considered resigning over President Nicolas Sarkozy's policy of deporting Roma people from France.
5
Camping in the centre of a roundabout in Dublin was much better than living in Romania, several Roma people said yesterday.
1
Finally the Pathfinder came to a halt, breathing easily as he stood before the great bonfire, letting the heat steam the sweat rrom his skin.
1
Any Romanies who cooperate with gadje political structures automatically disbar themselves from representing Romani people.
Usage of gipsies in English
1
You and I, Miss Bryant, are of the gipsies of the world.
2
He takes the poachers and gipsies two and three at a time.
3
While a crowd of little gipsies turned the whole thing upside down.
4
No work this for gipsies; they take birds' nests and catch rabbits.
5
This was a quarter of brothels and of gipsies who made baskets.
6
For him all ponds were bottomless, all gipsies older than the moon.
7
They were both gipsies, for all that they had no Egyptian blood.
8
I had conversed much with the gipsies on religious subjects, and, alas!
9
The police have really done nothing locally, save the arrest of these gipsies.
10
In two days' time you would be in the hands of the gipsies.
11
The shepherds came running; Felix ordered them to charge the gipsies.
12
The story circulated in the village that John had gone among the gipsies.
13
That was before I lived in the woods with the gipsies.
14
Well, they will be quite safe; there are no gipsies in these parts.
15
It was the seven sons of the Turk-abetted I should say by gipsies.
16
The Comprachicos, we insist, had nothing in common with the gipsies.
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