Gipsy
['dʒipsi]
Definition
(n. a.) See Gypsy.
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Definition
n. one of a wandering race originally from India now scattered over Europe: one with a dark complexion: a sly roguish woman.—adj. unconventional outdoor.—ns. Gip′sydom; Gip′syism.—Gipsy hat a hat for women with large flaps at the sides; Gipsy table a form of light fancy table; Gipsy wagon a wagon or van like a dwelling on wheels used by gipsies and travelling photographers.
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Examples
- The reddleman lived like a gipsy; but gipsies he scorned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- As bad in their way as the indolent gipsy-giantess, the Cleopatra, in hers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Pancks the gipsy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There was something gipsy-like and agreeable in the dinner, after all. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Discussing the gipsy, I daresay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There is to be no form or paradea sort of gipsy party. Jane Austen. Emma.
- On my way through the hall, I encountered her little dog, who was called Jip--short for Gipsy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad- brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he was a lad. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I felt now as composed as ever I did in my life: there was nothing indeed in the gipsy's appearance to trouble one's calm. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And first and foremost of all, your own dear, dark, clever, gipsy-face, looking at me just as usual! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The afternoon was wet: a walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The reddleman lived like a gipsy; but gipsies he scorned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Only a few inches of mud wall kept him and his family from being gipsies themselves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The venerable inhabitants of that venerable pile seemed, in those times, to be encamped there like a sort of civilised gipsies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The police have really done nothing locally, save the arrest of these gipsies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the van of the gipsies who camped on the moor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Uglier persons than gipsies were known to cross Egdon at times, and a reddleman was one of them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The gipsies did not wait for the operations of justice; they took themselves off in a hurry. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The last night's ball seemed lost in the gipsies. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am sure the service Mr. Frank Churchill had rendered you, in protecting you from the gipsies, was spoken of. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But what, then, did the gipsies do? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Rosanne