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GIPSY
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Traducere în limba română
gipsy I. substantiv
1. ţigan, rom.
2. limbă ţigănească.
3. (amer.) nomad, vagabond.
4. (glumeţ) persoană foarte oacheşă/ brunetă.
gipsy II. adjectiv
1. ţigănesc.
2. (fig. despre petreceri, ospeţe) câmpenesc, în aer liber, la câmp.
gipsy III. verb intranzitiv
1. a vagabonda, a duce o viaţă nomadă.
2. (fig.) a organiza un picnic / o petrecere etc. în aer liber / la câmp.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
But what, then, did the gipsies do?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not the gipsies—it was not Mr. Frank Churchill that I meant.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
But I, and the rest who continued well, enjoyed fully the beauties of the scene and season; they let us ramble in the wood, like gipsies, from morning till night; we did what we liked, went where we liked: we lived better too.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The presence of the gipsies, and the use of the word ‘band,’ which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an entirely wrong scent.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had soon afterwards reason to believe that the beginning was already made, and could not but hope that the gipsy, though she had told no fortune, might be proved to have made Harriet's.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
And speaking aloud, he continued—"Ladies, you talked of going to Hay Common to visit the gipsy camp; Sam here says that one of the old Mother Bunches is in the servants' hall at this moment, and insists upon being brought in before 'the quality,' to tell them their fortunes.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Discussing the gipsy, I daresay.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
If you please, miss, the gipsy declares that there is another young single lady in the room who has not been to her yet, and she swears she will not go till she has seen all.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
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