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Definition of Rommany
1. Noun. A member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America).
Generic synonyms: Indian
Specialized synonyms: Gitana, Gitano
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rommany
Literary usage of Rommany
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Friendship by Samuel McChord Crothers (1910)
"CT Winchester The rommany Rye and the Gypsy Lad *c* <^ T WANDERED along the heath,
till I came to a -*- place where, beside a thick furze, sat a man, ..."
2. The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow (1901)
"The language, as they generally speak it, is a broken jargon, in which few of
the grammatical peculiarities of the rommany are to be distinguished. ..."
3. The Moonlight Sonata: And Other Verses by Mary Anna Buck Evans (1910)
"... THE rommany RYE. OH, the voice of the wind is abroad in the world,— It sings
out its secrets on high, And the voice of the hills echoes, answering back, ..."
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