Meaning of fauxhemian | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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