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- noun Alternative form of
zigeuner .
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Examples
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If Kahnt wishes, each song can be published separately, especially the Zigeuner; Nonnenwerth, etc.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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[ "Die drei Zigeuner" ( "The Three Gipsies"), by Lenau, for voice with pianoforte accompaniment.] are most excellently lodged on the Altenburg.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Dr.A. F. Pott in his _Zigeuner_ (vol.ii. p. 224), intimates very decidedly that you took the word _shastr_ (Exhastra de Moyses) from Sanskrit and put it into Romany; declaring that it would be very important if _shaster_ were Romany.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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You like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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You like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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You like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The saddle-makers and leather-workers of Persia are called Tsingani; they are, in their way, low caste, and a kind of gypsy, and it is supposed that from them are possibly derived the names Zingan, Zigeuner, Zingaro, etc., by which gypsies are known in so many lands.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Grammatik oder Sprachkunst; Wörterbuch der Zigeuner-Sprache, 2 parts in
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The Gypsies of England, the Zigany, Zigeuner, and other tribes of the
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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This last word posed the etymological skill of even Prof. Pott in his great work on _Die Zigeuner_, but he hazards the conjecture that _cochenos_ may be akin to the Greek [Greek text]; really the whole may be dismembered into _bauro_, great, _baval_, wind, and the English "a-catching us."
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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