These Bohemian joints were so uncompromising that they reminded Moss “you needed chutzpah to live in New York,” he says.
To honor the occasion, DVF presented a collection—or rather, a party—that was dubbed “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Will we see more of Jessa's Bohemian style and no pants for Hannah?
After World War II, the Village went through an enormous renaissance as the Bohemian beatnik art place.
She became a professional sculptor and hung around with all sorts of famous Bohemian artists and writers.
Rather with regret it was I found her to be a Mrs. Kenner, the leader of the Bohemian set.
He had been asked to meet the Bohemian set at a Dutch supper and had gone.
The Bohemian set, such as are possible, will be bound to come over to us.
Well, then, if the Austrians may not be touched, what say you to a Bohemian!
In one corner was a donkey tied up, belonging to the Bohemian.
"a gypsy of society," 1848, from French bohemién (1550s), from the country name (see Bohemia). The modern sense is perhaps from the use of this country name since 15c. in French for "gypsy" (they were wrongly believed to have come from there, though their first appearance in Western Europe may have been directly from there), or from association with 15c. Bohemian heretics. It was popularized by Henri Murger's 1845 story collection "Scenes de la Vie de Boheme," the basis of Puccini's "La Bohème." Used in English 1848 in Thackary's "Vanity Fair."
The term 'Bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gipsey, no matter in what language he speaks, or what city he inhabits .... A Bohemian is simply an artist or littérateur who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art. ["Westminster Review," 1862]
A descriptive term for a stereotypical way of life for artists and intellectuals. According to the stereotype, bohemians live in material poverty because they prefer their art or their learning to lesser goods; they are also unconventional in habits and dress, and sometimes in morals.
