Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Hungarian Gipsy.
- Of or pertaining to Hungarian Gipsies: used in English chiefly with reference to their music.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
tzigane .
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Wherever the tzigany music comes from, it seems Hungarian, at any rate -- fiery and indolent and haphazard, rolling on without any particular rhyme or reason, now piling up and now sinking indolently back as the waves roll up and fall back on the sand.
Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905
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