Definition of Tsigane

1. a Hungarian gypsy [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tsigane

tschernichite
tschinke
tschinkes
tschk
tsebe
tsessebe
tsessebes
tsetse
tsetse flies
tsetse fly
tsetses
tshatshke
tshatshkes
tsheg
tshegs
tsigane (current term)
tsiganes
tsimbl
tsimbls
tsimmes
tsine
tsipouro
tsitsith
tsitsiyoth
tsk
tsk-tsk
tsk tsk
tsk tsks
tsked
tsking

Literary usage of Tsigane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Whirlpool of Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs by Archibald Ross Colquhoun, Ethel Maud Cookson Colquhoun (1907)
"The mention of dancing immediately suggests the tsigane, without whom no dance in ... Nothing has been more advertised and less understood than the tsigane ..."

2. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society by Gypsy Lore Society (1889)
"... a minuit, Dans la lune un tsigane bleme Joue en faisant si pen de bruit, Que cette musique tres tendre, Parmi les silences du bois, Jusqu'ici ne s'est ..."

3. Struggling for Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies of Hungary by Gyorgy Feher, Holly Cartner, Lois Whitman (1993)
"... the commonly used English designation "Gypsy," its Hungarian, French, Spanish, German etc. equivalents ("Cigany," "tsigane," "Zigeuner," "Gitano" etc. ..."

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