Zingaro

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Gypsy. archaic

    "Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu."

Etymology

From Italian. Doublet of tzigane.

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