The Gipseys are a race of vagabonds which infest Europe, Africa and Asia, strolling about and subsisting mostly by theft, robbery and fortune-telling. The name is supposed to be corrupted from Egyptian, as they were thought to have come from Egypt. But their language indicates that they originated in Hindoostan.

A reproachful name for a dark complexion.

A name of slight reproach to a woman; sometimes implying artifice or cunning. A slave I am to Clara’s eyes: . The gipsey knows her power and flies.

The language of the gipseys.