Meaning

noun a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic

noun a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style

originLatinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from…

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