All 4 Uses of
bohemian
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.†
Chpt 1
- It only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face.†
Chpt 1
- You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman.†
Chpt 1 *
- I had returned to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and visit us.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, Bohemian can refer to someone from Bohemia, the western region of the Czech Republic; or anyone from the Czech Republic.