Bohémien, Gypsy, wanderer, nomad. Members of

this class of vagrants were popularly supposed, in Western Europe, to corne froïn Bohemia, where . conditions of lif e were very unsettled in the 15th- 17th centuries, and where wholesale expatriation was caused bj civil and religions strife. The genuine gypsies (also known in French by the names of égyptiens, tziganes) are believed to he of Asiatic origin. They are most common in Hungary and Spain, where they are so numerous as to be reckoned as a distinct class of population.

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