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Blooms⋅bur⋅y

[bloomz-buh-ree, -bree]
–noun
1. a residential and academic district in London, N of the Thames and Charing Cross. Artists, writers, and students living there have given it a reputation as an intellectual center.
–adjective
2. of or pertaining to a group of artists and writers who flourished in the early decades of the 20th century and were associated with the Bloomsbury section of London.
3. of, pertaining to, following, or imitating the cultural and intellectual pursuits, interests, or opinions characteristic of this group.
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Blooms·bur·y   (blōōmz'běr'ē, -bə-rē, -brē)   
A residential district of north-central London, England, made famous by its association with an influential group of writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes, in the early 20th century.
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Bloomsbury 
1910, in ref. to the set of Bohemian writers, artists, and intellectuals (including E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and John Maynard Keynes) centered on Lytton Strachey, from the London neighborhood where several lived and worked.
"Women in love with buggers and buggers in love with womanizers, I don't know what the world is coming to." [Lytton Strachey]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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