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

He also says there is an "educational quality" to raising it, as people know the Nazis murdered Jews, but they don't know, claims Carr, they also killed gypsies and other groups.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2022

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

Where else in America do you have a gold rush of opportunity amidst pockets of anarchy and lawlessness, gun slinging, farmers, miners, gypsies, vagabonds and saints?

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Be that as it may, since that first witticism concerning the gypsies, I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro