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Rom

[rohm] / roʊm /
NOUN
a Romani person
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For the first two months at the Matsapha Correctional Centre, Rom said he and fellow deportees "went through misery" -- allowed outdoors for only 15 minutes a day and given one weekly phone call.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Some who were killed or captured were working at the festival as security guards and ushers, including Eitan Mor, 25, Bar Kupershtein, 23, and Rom Braslavski, 21, who are among those still being held.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 11, 2025

The footage of Evyatar was released after Palestinian Islamic Jihad published video of another hostage, Rom Braslavski, thin and crying.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2025

So I said to Rom, “Come on, have a quick go at this.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2024

And which totally sucked because it meant he would read the rest of the comic during school, and have something lame like Rom out on the way home.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

Photograph: FEndi Women’s leggings, coffee pods, microwave rice and computer game downloads have all been added to the ‘basket of goods’ used to measure UK inflation, while CD Roms and nightclub fees are out.

From The Guardian Mar. 15, 2016

Plutarch makes the visit to Asia precede Cato's quæstorship, upon which see the remarks of Drumann, Geschichte Roms, v.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey

Authorized translation by L. A. Magnus from the 7th rev. ed. of the Sittengeschichte Roms.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

I myself, while living among the Roms of England, have been regarded almost in the light of a cannibal for cooking the latter animal and preferring it to hotchiwitchu barbecued, or ragout of boror.

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by Borrow, George Henry

And Rom was the general slang of the road, and it came from the Roms or Trablūs. 

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey




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