| 单词 | gypsy encampment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGypsy encampment a. General use as a modifier (in sense A. 1a), as in Gypsy cant, Gypsy encampment, etc. ΚΠ 1624 W. B. in P. Massinger Bond-man sig. A4 Here are no Gipsie Iigges, no Drumming stuffe, Dances, or other Trumpery to delight. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iii. 34 There is a kind of cant in trade, which a tradesman ought to know, as the beggars and strollers know the gypsy cant. 1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. iv. 88 The ‘Scottish History’ looks like that of a gipsy encampment. 1881 E. A. Freeman Sketch Subj. Lands Venice 57 The traveller who comes on the right day may come in for a gipsy fair at Duino. 1929 Travel Jan. 15/1 Yea, he did, five years ago when we found our Kabarda colts in the Gipsy camp! 2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 176 The huckster tables and booths have been replaced by broken-down wooden shacks and brightly painted gypsy carriages. < as lemmas |
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