fem. -ara. Pl. -ari, -e. Also 7 pl. Singari, Zingaries; 9 Zingaree. [It. Cf. prec.] A gipsy; also attrib. or as adj.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 45. The very Northerne Weomen … haue their faces tanned, that they may seeme to be Southerne Weomen (which sort are in Italy called Singari).
1775. Chandler, Trav. Asia Minor, 159. Some of the vagrant people, called Atzincari or Zingari, the Gypsies of the East.
1784–5. Ann. Reg., II. 83. A Vocabulary of the Zingara, or Gypsey Language.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xvi. I am a Zingaro, a Bohemian, an Egyptian, or whatever the Europeans … may choose to call our people. Ibid. The Zingaro boy was no house-bred cur.
1845. Fitzball, Maritana, III. Duetto, Don C. Once more we meet! ’Tis the Zingara! Mar. Yes, Maritana.
1856. Amy Carlton, 129. She had copied two lines of the ‘The Merry Zingra’; then she … hummed ‘I’m a merry, merry Zingra.’
1871. M. Collins, Marq. & Merch., I. vii. 217. The Zingari had built their fires.
1906. E. Reich, Plato, vi. 114. The Zingaree or gypsy mother.
