zinganihttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zingani_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZingani, n.
Revised 2020

† Zinganinoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1581–1879
    With plural agreement. The Romani people; Gypsies collectively. Cf. zingana n.1, Zingaro n.
    1. 1581
      Your meaning is..that as it is lawefull onely for the Cinganes [French Cingeurs] to robbe, so these also haue priuiledge to play in open streete.
      G. Pettie, translation of S. Guazzo, Ciuile Conuersation i. 26
    2. 1684
      There are thousands of Gypsies or Zinganies in Turkey.
      T. Smith in Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society) vol. 14 446
    3. a1733
      A gang of Zingans, or gypses.
      E. Chishull, Travels in Turkey (1747) 93
    4. 1838
      They were very sweet nondescripts, but not very perfect beggars; and far, far indeed from perfect Zinganies.
      W. Howitt, Rural Life of England vol. I. iii. i. 249
    5. 1879
      The number of pulse-beats per minute varies within wide limits: the Congo Negroes (62), and next to them the Hottentots and Rumanians (64), have the slowest pulses. Then follow the Zingani (69), Magyars and Caffres (70).
      London Medical Record 15 May 210/1

Zingani, n. was revised in September 2020.

Zingani, n. was last modified in September 2024.