mariméadj.

1915 E. O. Winstedt in Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. 8 257 The coins are removed from a woman's hair before she gives birth to a child, in order that they may not become maXrimé (defiled).

1915 E. O. Winstedt in Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. 8 258 Eating utensils become maXrimé if a woman steps over them, and must never be used again.

1963 C. Duff tr. J.-P. Clébert Gypsies iv. 125 The Rom who has been sentenced..finds himself banished for evermore... Nobody will even have the courage to kill him in order to cut short his misfortune, for merely to go near him would risk making marimé (polluted, defiled) whoever has tried to do so.

1981 A. Lurie Lang. of Clothes iv. 98 In Romany belief women are marimay—taboo, unclean—from the waist down, and must always wear two-piece garments.

1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 33/3 Among gypsies women below the waist are marimay (taboo).