gipsy
Americannoun
plural
gipsiesnoun
Sensitive Note
See gypsy.
Other Word Forms
- Gipsy-like adjective
- Gipsydom noun
- Gipsyhood noun
- Gipsyish adjective
- gipseian adjective
- gipsydom noun
- gipsyesque adjective
- gipsyhood noun
- gipsyish adjective
- gipsyism noun
- gipsylike adjective
Vocabulary lists containing gipsy
Example Sentences
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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.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
By keeping to this beaten track of enjoyment, he could, at one and the same time, be entertaining June and keeping an eye open for that gipsy girl who haunted his imagination.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
"Indeed Llanyglo has become grea-a-at big place, whatever," the gipsy replied, and continued her conversation with Mrs. Roberts.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
So, so," said the gipsy; "so the fair lady you were walking with yesterday in Morley Wood is more wise, or, as you would call it, more credulous than you are.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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