Bohemia
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Bohemias
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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. (52,060 sq. km).
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(often lowercase) a district inhabited by persons, typically artists, writers, and intellectuals, whose way of life, dress, etc., are generally unconventional or avant-garde.
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(often lowercase) the social circles where such behavior is prevalent.
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a former kingdom of central Europe, surrounded by mountains: independent from the 9th to the 13th century; belonged to the Hapsburgs from 1526 until 1918
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Czech name: Čechy. German name: Böhmen. an area of the W Czech Republic, formerly a province of Czechoslovakia (1918–1949). From 1939 until 1945 it formed part of the German protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia
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a district frequented by unconventional people, esp artists or writers
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One certainly cannot be understood without the other, yet it gives an impression of a book that cannot decide whether it is a history of Prague, the Czechs or of Bohemia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Added together, the scripts for the role-playing epics set in 15th Century Bohemia run to more than three million pages and thousands of lines.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025
Lisa Renne Pomerantz, a lawyer in Bohemia, New York, who has helped businesses establish LLCs in the state, said canceling certificates is a significant order because you can’t operate without them.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
Bohemia is not a lucrative state, and mother and daughter survived on welfare, the largess of friends and family and the meager earnings from Viva’s freelance articles and occasional bit parts in films.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Five months later, on March 15, 1939, he sent German troops into Bohemia and Moravia, also regions of Czechoslovakia.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
El Piporro buys four Bohemias for himself and four Cartas for a sad guy in the corner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
There are little Italys, and Chinatowns, and diminutive Bohemias, all swung together by the action of this great centripetal force of loneliness.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
Happily untypical of this publisher’s racy trash, this story of a young man searching for self-knowledge in New York’s Bohemias is very good of its’ kind.
From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
It distinguishes the Bohemia of Elizabeth from other famous Bohemias, that of Grub Street, known to Dr. Johnson, and that of the quartier latin described by Mürger.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
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