A historical region in Central Europe, now part of the Czech Republic, or a lifestyle characterized by artistic, unconventional, and free-spirited attitudes.
From Latin Boiohaemum, meaning 'home of the Boii' (a Celtic tribe). The lifestyle meaning emerged in 19th-century Paris, where impoverished artists lived in the Bohemian quarter, and the term came to describe their unconventional, artistic lifestyle.
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