Bohemian vs Fauxhemian - What's the difference?
bohemian | fauxhemian |
unconventional, especially in habit or dress.
Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
* 2006 , Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It , Doubleday (2006), ISBN 9780385518215,
* 2007 , Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-ball Odyssey , Riverhead Books (2007), ISBN 9781594489365,
* 2013 , John Strausbaugh, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village , Ecco (2013), ISBN 9780062078209,
As nouns the difference between bohemian and fauxhemian
is that bohemian is an unconventional or nonconformist artist or writer while fauxhemian is someone who adopts some aspects of a bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.As a adjective bohemian
is unconventional, especially in habit or dress.bohemian
English
(wikipedia bohemian)Adjective
(en adjective)- Please tell me you're not one of Toulouse's oh-so-talented, charmingly bohemian , tragically impoverished protégés!'' -
See also
* bohemiumfauxhemian
English
Noun
(en noun)page 140:
- A far cry from the tie-dyed life I pictured for him, squeezing out the last drops of the long-depleted Woodstock spirit with a bunch of fauxhemians a third his age who want to touch the hem of his garment (or, more likely, smoke him out) because he used to hang with Dylan.
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- The bar where we're playing — a dank little hole in Manhattan's East Village that attracts a following every three years or so when some young fauxhemian "discovers" the place and writes about it for Time Out New York'' or ''The Village Voice , usually under a catchy headline like "Dives We Love" — is quiet, almost empty if you don't count the regulars.
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- By then many of the artists and writers who had generated all this interest had fled the Village and North Beach, abandoning them to the tourists and fauxhemians .