What's a 'piranda'?


The reviewer tosses in the term "impersonation of a 'piranda'" so casually that one would think everyone knows what a 'piranda' is. I'm not poorly educated and I've done a Google and other searches to find out if this is some meaningful literary reference or a famous term to describe a stereotype of some kind. Nothing doing. So What's a Piranda?

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A "piranda" is the gipsy term for a gipsy woman. That's it... And I don't think u'll find a lot of information about it by reviewing the "culturalized" information centre such as the Internet.

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Horia is right.
In fact, a piranda is a married gypsy woman, mother of many children. Sometimes even her husband calls her that.
On the other hand, maybe you wonder what a "bulibasha" is...Well, the gypsy man, piranda's husband, head of the family, sometimes of the tribe :)

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a piranda is in deed a married woman in gypsy terms. but a ' bulibash' is actually the head of the comunity, the leader of it, not the head of the family.

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