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‖ Zingaro|ˈzɪŋgərəʊ|
Fem. -ara |-ərə|. Pl. -ari, -e. Also 7 pl. Singari, Zingaries; 9 Zingaree.
[It. Cf. prec.]
1. A gypsy; also attrib. or as adj.
1617Moryson Itin. iii. 45 The very Northerne Weomen..haue their faces tanned, that they may seeme to be Southerne Weomen (which sort are in Italy called Singari). 1775Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 159 Some of the vagrant people, called Atzincari or Zingari, the Gypsies of the East. 1784–5Ann. Reg. ii. 83 A Vocabulary of the Zingara, or Gypsey Language. 1823Scott Quentin D. xvi, I am a Zingaro, a Bohemian, an Egyptian, or whatever the Europeans..may choose to call our people. Ibid., The Zingaro boy was no house-bred cur. 1845E. Fitzball Maritana iii. Duetto, Don C. Once more we meet! 'Tis the Zingara! Mar. Yes, Maritana. 1856Amy Carlton 129 She had copied two lines of the ‘The Merry Zingra’; then she..hummed ‘I'm a merry, merry Zingra’. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. vii. 217 The Zingari had built their fires. 1906E. Reich Plato vi. 114 The Zingaree or gypsy mother.
2. pl. I (or The) Zingari: the name of an amateur cricket club founded in 1845.
1846W. Denison Cricketer's Compan. 1845 p. xiii, Everybody knows that the ‘Zingari’ are a tribe of wanderers... Just such a race of individuals is the Club which bears the name and title of ‘I Zingari’. As a Club, they have neither habitation nor home. 1867‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. v. 106 The Household [Cavalry] played the Zingari. 1905H. A. Vachell Hill x. 222 After the Zingari Match, Desmond got his Flannels. 1922Joyce Ulysses 731 A new raincoat on him with the muffler in the Zingari colours. 1948E. Waugh Loved One i. 5 Sir Ambrose wore dark grey flannels, an Eton Rambler tie, an I Zingari ribbon in his boater hat. 1978Times 17 June 13/6 The Household Brigade might turn out in jackboots, gauntlets, [etc.]..to contend with the Zingari. |