gypsies

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Looking on were the usual suspects of Rio’s Carnival scene: revelers dressed as folkloric characters, jaguars, gypsies and ‘bate-bolas’ – exuberant clowns in identical, elaborate outfits who travel in packs.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

I always say we’re just gypsies — vagabonds who form these tribes of weird families who go from place to place to create art: I couldn’t imagine doing anything else with my life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2021

"One of the big stereotypes is that all gypsies and travellers live in caravans and don't pay taxes. It's untrue," Emma says.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2019

“It matches nothing and goes with everything,” added Veronica Miele Beard, her partner in the three-year-old fashion house that courts, evenhandedly, young Uptown matrons, turbo-powered corporate strivers and highbred urban gypsies.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2013

But José Arcadio Buendía at that time did not believe in the honesty of gypsies, so he traded his mule and a pair of goats for the two magnetized ingots.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez