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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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vanister
noun
a finger ring
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fanni
etymology:
possibly a development from Romany
vangustri, wangustri
; also collected by Simson (1865)
note:
Grellmann (1787) collected the form
Jangu
ʃ
tri
‘a ring’ from Continental gipsies.