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fauxhemian en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of faux + Bohemian.

Meanings

1. Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
   • 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. 2013, John Strausbaugh, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, Ecco, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2006, Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 140:
   • 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. 2007, Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-ball Odyssey, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 2:

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