I Zingari

English

Etymology

From Italian i (“the”) + zingari (“gypsies”), since the English club had no ground of its own.

Proper noun

I Zingari

  1. (cricket) Amateur Australian and English cricket clubs.
    • 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 175 (1968 edition):
      "Well, and what do you think of it all, my boy?" he inquired, fanning himself with a wide-brimmed grey hat which had I Zingari colours round it […]

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