Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The life or habits of a Bohemian, in the figurative sense. See
Bohemian , n., 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Modern The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.
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- noun Alternative capitalization of
Bohemianism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun conduct characteristic of a bohemian
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Examples
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The twentieth-century elaboration of a consumer economy and the concomitant diversification of sources of individual identity — the layering of identity derived from consumption choices and leisure pursuits atop the older, producerist identification with work — made mass participation in bohemianism possible for the first time by the 1960s. 33 But hippies gained what they believed to be a powerful new tool for the mass transformation of consciousness in the form of LSD.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Simplicity and genuineness were the foundation-stones of her character, and she certainly dispensed with many of the useless conventions of society, but she was a serious-minded woman for whom the cheap affectations generally labelled as "bohemianism" could have no attractions.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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The restaurant is arty but clean; gritty but stocked with white truffle oil, aïoli for the fries, and Triple Karmelite on tap - the kind of bohemianism that accepts American Express.
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As forces change the environment, the bohemianism of Echo Park is soon to be only a treasured memory of history.
Gordy Grundy: The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park Gordy Grundy 2011
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As forces change the environment, the bohemianism of Echo Park is soon to be only a treasured memory of history.
Gordy Grundy: The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park Gordy Grundy 2011
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Parrish, artistic and tolerant, encouraged Fisher to write, providing her with well-funded bohemianism and what Ms. Zimmerman calls an "equitable partnership with a man who valued" her creativity.
The Romantical She Amy Finnerty 2011
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Favored by charismatic icons like Greg Noll and Bunker Spreckels, baggies were the flowing emblem of coastal American bohemianism, with its beach bonfires, Volkswagen vans and salt-kissed hair.
Show Some Leg 2011
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Roland Petit was the defining voice of postwar Parisian ballet, embracing the existentialist spirit of the city's Left Bank as well as its history of romantic bohemianism and glamour.
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As forces change the environment, the bohemianism of Echo Park is soon to be only a treasured memory of history.
Gordy Grundy: The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park Gordy Grundy 2011
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As forces change the environment, the bohemianism of Echo Park is soon to be only a treasured memory of history.
Gordy Grundy: The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park Gordy Grundy 2011
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