For example, a shirt was called lime; a chambermaid, limogère; sheets, limanswords all derived from the gipsy word lima, a shirt: they called an écu, a rusquin or rougesme, from rujia, the common word for money; a rich man, rupin; a house, turne; a knife, chourin, from rup, turna, and chori, which, in the gipsy tongue, mean respectively silver, castle, and knife.