Gypsy
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Etymology
Earlier gipcyan, gyptian, short for Egyptian; when they first appeared in England in the sixteenth century they were believed to have come from Egypt.
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Noun
- A Rom, member of the Roma. This term is considered pejorative by some, especially among the Roma themselves.
- One of a stateless people, whose communities, traditionally thought to have been originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th century, and are now widely distributed over Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Americas.
- The language of the Roma people.
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