bohemia
波西米亚,波希米亚,波西米亚半岛,流浪汉
Definitions
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- : Czech Čechy. a region in the W Czech Republic: formerly a kingdom in central Europe; under Hapsburg rule 1526–1918. 20,101 sq. mi..
- : a district inhabited by persons, typically artists, writers, and intellectuals, whose way of life, dress, etc., are generally unconventional or avant-garde.
- : the social circles where such behavior is prevalent.
Examples
Rokeby is a bohemian castle and they’re the king and queen of Bohemia.
The truth is that bohemia and Buckingham Palace have never fitted together particularly well.
You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York.
The whole point of a bohemia is that people congregate in a relatively well-defined area.
A few themes run throughout: druggy, decadent bohemia, forbidden or strange sex, art, and power, and, um, cooking.
His zeal led him among foreigners as a missionary; after visiting Bohemia, he went among the Poles, by whom he was killed.
The majority looked as if they belonged to the higher walks of Bohemia, and quite a fourth were indubitably fashionable.
Wait until you have been really initiated into intellectual Bohemia—the clever young newspaper men and budding authors.
They adapt themselves to the Quarter and become a part of this big family of Bohemia easily and naturally.
Here he stayed a fortnight, expecting daily to see from his “chambers” the gaiety of a Bohemia of which he had so often heard.