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‖ tzigane, n. and a.|tsɪˈgɑːn|
Also tsigan(e, tzigan, † zigan.
[a. F. tzigane, = Russian tsȳgan, Ruthenian tsȳhan, Slovenian cigan, Romanian ţigan, Lithuanian cigonas, Bulgarian tsiganin, Croatian ciganin; all from Magyar cigány, (ˈtsigaːɲ). The spelling with tz- originated in German; a better Eng. spelling would be tsigan: cf. Tsar.]
A. n. A Hungarian gipsy.
1851Borrow Lavengro xc. (1893) 352 Like the forge and tent of a wandering Zigan. 1887Pall Mall G. 3 Mar. 5/2 The fiery Magyar, the melancholy Roumanian, the stolid Saxon, the merry, thieving Tzigane. 1898Tit-Bits 7 May 114/1 The finest-looking people of Europe are the Tsiganes, or gipsies of Hungary. 1906Reader 24 Nov. 124/1 The humblest peasant, even the nomad Tzigan, greasy, wild, and unkempt in appearance.
B. adj. That is a tzigane; pertaining to or consisting of tziganes.
1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman vi. The Tzigane musicians were playing most exquisite music. 1888E. D. Gerard Land beyond Forest II. xxvii. 13 Stripping a young Tzigane girl quite naked. 1912Daily News 12 Apr. 6 The..inevitable tzigane bands, valses, cake-walks.
Hence tziganologist |tsɪgəˈnɒlədʒɪst|, tziˈganologue (also ts-), one who studies or treats of the tziganes.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Tsiganologist, same as Zinganologist. 191119th Cent. Sept. 550 We owe our knowledge of it [Shelta] to Charles Godfrey Leland, a keen tsiganologue. |