bohemia

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  1. noun A community of persons with artistic or literary tastes who adopt manners and mores conspicuously different from those expected or approved of by the majority of society.
  2. noun The district in which bohemians live.

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  • What can be gleaned from these essays is that Wilson, a Denver artist, has been working since the 1960s and that he was part of a now mostly forgotten bohemia. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • He's attracted some impressive players who have joined the act and together, they are fermenting a local taste that's acoustic, funky and sprinkled with a touch of hillbilly bohemia - if there is such a thing. —  Kingsport Times News - Daily 5
  • For a gay leader who rose up in the 1970s out of the low-rent bohemia of San Francisco's Castro district, Harvey Milk came off as a fairly straight shooter. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
  • Yet not only does poetry exist, it is flourishing - and not just among the grand old oaks of literary society, but in the grassroots of bohemia. —  Personism
  • Kauffman and Crane staged musicals off-Broadway and wrote children's theater, but as much as they enjoyed the artistic bohemia of the New York scene, it was far too difficult to make a living there. —  Articles
 

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