1 gen 1667 anni - Egyptian

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A gipsy. Correctly a person from Egypt, but used of vagrants and the like who pretended to be from that country. The OED has this meaning from 1514 and the term was employed in Acts of Parliament 1530 for the Avoiding & Banishing out of this realme certain outlandish People calling themselves Egyptians, using no Craft ... to live by (SAL). It was in regular use through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 1567 John Davye, an Egiptian, Leeds (PR); 1605 ‘four women, vagrantes more Egyptianorum’, Stokesley (NRQS1/11); 1667 there came a man and a woman to Mr Wade’s desiring him to tel them where to find something they had lost ... he said he could not tel but he had an Egiptian in the house that could, Northowram (OH3/99). By that time it was being regularly abbreviated to ‘gipsy’ 1649-50 divers people in the habitts of jipscy ... did tell fortunes ... did some tyme speake in languages wich none ... could understand, Butterwick (SS40/27-8).

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