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Gypsies. The first of the laws against gypsies, 22 Hen. 8, c. 10, describes this people, who were then new-comers in this country, as 'outlandish persons calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft or feat or merchandise, who have come into this realm and go from shire to shire and place to place in great company, and use great, subtle, and crafty means to deceive the people, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell men's and women's fortunes; and so many times by craft and subtilty have deceived the people of their money, and also have committeed many heinous felonies and robberies.' It was enacted that if any such persons came within the realm, they should forfeit all their goods and chattels, and should leave the kingdom within fifteen days after command so to do, upon pain of imprisonment, 4 Reeves, c. xxx., 420.Both this Act, and the still more severe 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 4, have been repealed, as Acts not in use, by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64. Fortune-tellers are, however, p...
Gypsy moth
A tussock moth Lymantria dispar or Porthetria dispar or Ocneria dispar native of the Old World but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869 where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit shade and forest trees of many kinds The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown the female white and larger than the male In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule The caterpillars when full grown have a grayish mottled appearance with blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercles on the posterior part of the body all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August The eggs are laid on tree trunks rocks etc and hatch in the spring...
A Egyptians
A E gyptians, commonly called Gypsies. See GYPSIES....
Gypsey
A gypsy See Gypsy...
flamenco
a strongly rhythmic and vigorous style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian gypsies characterized by clapping and stamping of feet...
Gypsyism
The arts and practices or habits of gypsies deception cheating flattery...
Gypsywort
A labiate plant the Lycopus Europaeligus Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice...
Egyptians
Egyptians. See GYPSIES....
Fortune-tellers
Fortune-tellers, persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes are punishable as rogues and vagabonds under the Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4. See, further, GYPSIES; PALMISTRY; and VAGRANT....
Zigari, or Zingari
Zigari, or Zingari, gypsies (q.v.), held to be rogues and vagabonds in the Middle Ages; from Zigi, now Circassia....
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