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Gipsy language, the speech of the Roma or Zincaʹli. This has nothing to do with Rome.
“A learned Sclavonian … said of Rommany, that he found it interesting to be able to study a Hindu dialect in the heart of Europe.”—Leland: English Gipsies, chap. viii. p. 109.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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