[Gutenberg 52647] • Incidents in a Gipsy's Life
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- Authors
- Smith, George
- Tags
- 1830- , smith , romanies -- great britain -- biography , george
- Date
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.04 MB
- Lang
- en
Originally published in 1894.
Gypsy (also gipsy): A member of a travelling people traditionally living by itinerant trade and fortune telling. Gypsies speak a language (Romany) that is related to Hindi and are believed to have originated in South Asia.
— OxfordDictionaries.com
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states a 'gipsy' is a
member of a wandering race (by themselves called Romany), of Indian origin, which first appeared in England about the beginning of the 16th c.
According to the OED, the word was first used in English in 1514, with several more uses in the same century, and both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used this word.
— Wikipedia