gipsy


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Synonyms for gipsy

a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment

a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling

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While there was no evidence to suggest it was Ben, it showed children were being sold in gipsy circles.
The Gipsy was powered by a BMC 2,199cc petrol engine based on the one in the Austin A70 but progress was accelerating in the car world and by the 1960s and the engine was showing its age.
In an attempt to understand what is happening to these children, Romanian film-maker Liviu Tipurita embarks on a journey through Europe which takes him inside the closed world of the gipsy community, where he talks to the authorities and institutions meant to be dealing with this disturbing phenomenon.
More recently, Deborah Nord has taken up the question but focuses especially on "Resignation" and "Scholar-Gipsy" and does not mention "Gipsy Child" at all.
Gipsy Moth V was the yacht in which Chichester attempted his last solo transatlantic race, but he was by then frail with bone cancer.
The Act also changes the definition of gipsy to travellers and gipsies.
heeled lady cared no more for the marital bed when this gipsy
He said, ``Whether you travel or not I cannot understand why you can't be a gipsy if you've been born a gipsy.
The highlights of the day on June 21, led by Northern Stage at the Newcastle Playhouse, will be the first-ever performance in the UK by the Bosnian `Mother of Gipsy Soul' Ljiljana Buttler, along with the acclaimed Bosnian band Mostar Sevdah Reunion.
The guidance states that there is evidence that the "majority of applications for gipsy and traveller sites are refused, whereas the majority of other applications for planning permissions are approved."
The Novas Group is the only Registered Social Landlord (RSL) working with gipsies and travellers across the UK and Ireland, and has welcomed comments made by the planning minister Keith Hill yesterday on unauthorised gipsy sites.
A GIPSY could be forced off his own land because a legal technicality says he cannot be classed as a traveller as his failing health has stopped him moving around.
CRE chairman Trevor Phillips will visit two gipsy sites in east London as part of the review.
Lawyers now think the verdict from the European Court of Human Rights could have implications for every gipsy encampment in the country after traveller James Connors, 49, was evicted by Leeds City Council off land in Yorkshire.