gypsies
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The Traveller Movement, which advocates for Gypsies, Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers, also "noted the contrast between the response of the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom".
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023
Each year, the Appleby Horse Fair draws tens of thousands of Irish Travellers and Gypsies, as many still refer to themselves, to a rural patch of northwestern England to celebrate their culture.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023
You can buy coffee and cake for about $7, or try one of the cocktails listed on brown paper menus: Whistling Gypsies, Hello Sailors.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022
“I try to pass them on to many people so they can really get to know us, because all they know is that there are Gypsies, but they don’t know anything about us.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021
These people included Communists; political leaders; Polish intellectuals; homosexuals; and itinerant people, whom the Nazis called Gypsies.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
