(n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the woodlands between Moravia, Lower Austria and Bohemia, mentioned by Ptolemaios under the Celtic name "Gabreta" (wild goats' wood, cf.
(2) 397 small mammals from the agglomeration of Ceské Budĕjovice and 1,399 from four characteristic biotops in the valley of the river Vltava in South-Bohemia were investigated for a comparison.
(3) The foci in Bohemia are separated from foci in neighbouring countries, foci in Moravia are continuous with those in Poland and Austria.
(4) Antibodies against Coxiella burnetii and against rickettsiae of the spotted fever group were found in human sera and in sera from domestic and wild animals collected in south Bohemia.
(5) All 91,823 children born in 1980 in Bohemia (population 6.314 million; area 52,478 square kilometers) were examined at least four times during infancy and at the age of three and four years.
(6) Lung adenomatosis was histologically demonstrated in seven sheep coming from one flock in western Bohemia.
(7) What would she have thought, I wonder, if someone had been able to stick a head round the door to tell her that she would grow up to marry Sir Laurence Olivier , supplant Vivien Leigh, have three children and become a queenly actress throughout Bohemia and beyond?
(8) In relation to the number of population the frequency is greatest in Prague (1 per 140 population) and lowest in Southern Bohemia (1 per 318).
(9) A clinico-pathologico-anatomical analysis of 150 cases of sudden death in a district of Bohemia in the period 1971--1973 revealed coronary atherosclerosis as the most frequent cause of sudden death(87.3%); stenosing coronary atherosclerosis without postmortally detectable myocardial necrosis participated by 71.7% in the coronary group.
(10) In Western Bohemia in original oak forests there were 97.2% breeding places of Ixodes ricinus.
(11) The exhibition was put under a boycott by some German industrialists and the German pharmacists from Bohemia ostentatiously rejected any participation.
(12) Inpatient point-prevalence and admission rates in both mental hospitals and psychiatric wards in general hospitals in East Bohemia and in Drenthe (the Netherlands) were compared.
(13) coccidia in smears of gut contents and samples of excrements stained after Heine (1982) was investigated in calves at the age of 30 days, coming from 16 farms of central Bohemia.
(14) The name comes from the town of Joachimsthal in Bohemia, where silver mines were used to produce coins originally known as “Joachimsthaler”.
(15) The experiments were carried out at 30, 20 and 10 degrees C. The experiments have shown that the presterilized waste-water from sugar factory (in Bohemia and in Slovakia) caused rapid multiplication of the test-organisms: E. coli, C. freundii, E. aerogenes, S. anatum, S. schottmuelleri, S. typhi-murium, less by Sh.
(16) Serum samples of 1,054 inhabitants of Bohemia (Czechoslovakia) were examined by means of indirect haemagglutination test with antigens from Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba culbertsoni.
(17) The animals had been received from Sumava District, Southern Bohemia, an area known for shortage of selenium.
(18) The somatic development of the children from the endemic area, expressed as height and body weight, was retarded in relation to the development of children from Bohemia as a whole and in particular when compared with Prague children.
(19) D. fragilis appears to be the most common intestinal protozoan parasite in Bohemia.
(20) D. anguillae has recently been recorded also from eels in Czechoslovakia (Mácha Lake, northern Bohemia).
Polka
Definition:
(n.) A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.
(n.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(2) Vitaly continues to bring his collection of Soviet cameras, photographs and other paraphernalia to an outdoor flea market, where the afternoon sun gleamed off a Lenin bust that he had repainted to look like a "'90s gangster" with a moustache and a polka-dot tie.
(3) There is a flashy new restaurant block, high-rise apartments, and department stores where you can buy Dior cosmetics, Siemens washing machines and blue and yellow polka-dot swimsuits.
(4) The very small spines (also glochids) of the polka dot or bunny's ear cactus (Opuntia microdasys) and the beavertail cactus (Opuntia basilaris) offer the most frustrating problem of all, but can be peeled off with a dried film of a professional facial gel.
(5) With the Slovak Peter Sagan having secured his second successive green jersey and Colombia's Nairo Quintana guaranteed those in polka dot and white before the beginning of Sunday's stage, those in the peloton eschewed early aggression in favour of a leisurely meander towards the Champs-Elysées.
(6) The man the NME once referred to as the coolest in London sits in the Soho offices of a film distribution company, wearing a blue polka-dot shirt and an expression of absolute mortification.
(7) Instead of echoing Diana's look - a pink floral dress with matching hat - as she did with blue polka dots post-birth, this gives a clue to what we'll see in the future.
(8) In London five nights beforehand, the quartet wore casual wear to perform; here, they are dressed in formal black – and I should damned well hope so, because Christy has changed into a polka-dot party frock and swapped her blue hairband for a lacy black ribbon tied in a big bow.
(9) His outfit could almost be a store-bought costume: the bright red braces, the wide polka-dot tie, even the carefully folded red handkerchief protruding from the left breast pocket of his suit.
(10) Spirited polka music was pumped out from the Village Bakery on to a sidewalk still littered with broken glass from shattered windows.
(11) Curiously, her final novel, The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress , would have been eligible this year but for an inexplicable rule that the award can't be posthumously awarded).
(12) The compound causing the blue–green glow of the polka-dot tree frog was not previously thought to exist in vertebrates and its discovery has excited researchers.
(13) She came for supper with Valerie Eliot , and the widow of the poet was wearing – he remembers it vividly – a polka-dot dress.
(14) A pub iin Knaresborough, decorated with King of the Mountains polka dots.
(15) Once the preserve of a few pioneering organisations – in particular the Polka and the Unicorn children’s theatres in London – relaxed performances are percolating through British theatre, from panto season to major subsidised theatres, such as the National and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), all the way to the West End.
(16) What made him think that the trench needed a polka dot bow tie to finish off the look?
(17) The equations presented admit solutions describing the "polka-dot" patterns seen at low organism concentration in suspensions slightly deeper than the critical value.
(18) The Colombian snaps up the double points on offer at the finish to secure the polka-dot jersey as king of the mountains.
(19) Narcocorrido takes its form from the polkas and waltzes of northern Mexico, and its lyrics blend a documentary eye for detail with a mythologising flair for an outrageously tall tale.
(20) The latter is classified as blend, laminate, swiss-roll, polka-dot, and froth in type.