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Bohemia|bəʊˈhiːmɪə|
1. A kingdom of central Europe, forming part of the Austrian empire. (Earlier forms were Boeme, Beme, Beeme, Bohem, Bohemy.)
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvi. 86 The hoole rewme of Beeme. 1527Andrew Brunswkye's Distyll. Waters B i b, Bohemy glas. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Answ. (1653) Post. 91 In Bohem, with the Schisme of the Hussites. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 55/1 The circuit of Bohemia is estimated at about 810 miles.
2. Gipsydom: see Bohemian n. 2.
1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. i. 25 Bohemia wanders, and steals.
3. The community of social ‘Bohemians’, or the district in which they chiefly live. So F. la bohème. [Both in Fr. and Eng. taken from the use of Bohemian n. 3.]
1861Thackeray Philip v. in Cornh. Mag. Feb. 186 What is now called Bohemia had no name in Philip's young days, though many of us knew the country very well. A pleasant land, not fenced with drab stucco, like Tyburnia or Belgravia, etc. |