The word 'Gypsy' can be considered appropriate and usable in written English, but it may also be considered outdated and potentially offensive to some members of the Roma community
It is important to use the term with sensitivity and awareness of its history and connotations. Example: The traveler identified herself as a Gypsy, her colorful wagon and array of musical instruments signaling her nomadic lifestyle.
Mylène Gilles has beautifully renovated a stone Normandy farmhouse, with four rooms, and in the garden is what she calls her "gypsy caravan", but is more like a roomy fisherman's cabin.
As George Mottershead continues to pursue his dream of opening a zoo, an ailing gypsy pleads with the haunted war veteran to take over the care of Bolero, his faithful dancing bear.
Officers raided 17 addresses on January 24th, discovering 68 Roma (gypsy) children of Romanian nationality, ten of whom they took into care.
Somehow the jazz of Django Reinhardt, the greatest gypsy guitarist of the age, had seeped into his ears, combining with the pulsing nightly flamencos round the fire: both of them music of the blood.Notes wrapped in newspaperHis career began by playing in summer to get money, along the hotel terraces in the resorts.
He might have become just another roaming player, except that he was recorded in 1955 at the annual gypsy gathering at Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer, and six years later was tracked down by Alan Silver, a producer for the Connoisseur record label in New York.The appearance of this stranger from God-knows-where almost frightened him.
Separate memorials to the homosexual and the Roma and Sinti (gypsy) victims are under way in central Berlin.
Unaware that it was still recording, he complained to his wife in the car about the "aggressive, stinking gypsy .Ms Pana, as it happens, is not Roma (gypsy) by ethnicity.
For instance, it breaks no law to clear French gypsy camps.
Running on an anti-Roma (gypsy) platform, with nasty words for Jews and homosexuals and with its own uniformed wing, Jobbik seemed more troubling than earlier groups.
Both countries also have big Roma (gypsy) populations, often living in abominable conditions, worse than under communism.The Balkan pair view Russia differently.
More Gypsies than ever before are winning elections for political office, and at a higher level: by one estimate, there are 20 Gypsy MPs and mayors in several countries, besides 400 local councillors.
