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Bohemian Forest

American  

noun

  1. a wooded mountain range in central Europe, on the boundary between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak, Arber, 4,780 feet (1,455 meters).


Bohemian Forest British  

noun

  1. Czech name: Český Les.  German name: Böhmerwald.  a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He lived with his family in a remote town in what was then Czechoslovakia, nestled in the mountainous Bohemian Forest.

From Science Magazine Mar. 21, 2018

To christen the new space, Jacques decided to exhibit ceramics produced between 1893 and 1910 in the Bohemian Forest of what is now the Czech Republic.

From Architectural Digest Sep. 16, 2015

In the summer and fall of 2013, Malkemper exiled himself to a horse stable in the Czech Republic's Bohemian Forest, far from technology that could potentially throw off his sensitive measurements.

From Scientific American Jun. 24, 2015

They entered first that part of the Bohemian Forest in which Schiller laid his play The Robbers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the heart of the Bohemian Forest, old as the world, lies the Wolf's Glen.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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