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Bloomsbury|ˈbluːmzbərɪ|
1. A set of writers, artists, and intellectuals living in or associated with Bloomsbury (see prec.) in the early 20th century; a member of this set. Also attrib., associated with, or having similar intellectual pretensions to, the Bloomsbury set. So Bloomsbury group, Bloomsbury set, the above-mentioned set of writers, etc. Also Bloomsbury gang, a political party that appeared in July 1765, led by the 4th Duke of Bedford, and otherwise known as ‘the Bedford party’.
1910Encycl. Brit. III. 619/1 Bloomsbury gang. 1914J. M. Keynes Let. 2 July in R. F. Harrod Life (1951) iv. 171 She..is asking no one but a few of my so-called ‘Bloomsbury set’! 1920D. H. Lawrence Let. 7 May (1962) I. 628 Nothing will happen to the world: Bloomsbury will go on enjoying itself in Paris and elsewhere. 1928A. P. Herbert Trials of Topsy 8 My dear too Bloomsbury for anything, and such forests of hair both of them. 1931R. Campbell Georgiad i. 12 It was a voice of 1930 model And in a Bloomsbury accent it could yodel. 1951R. F. Harrod Life of J. M. Keynes v. 184 The Bloomsbury voice was a distinct contribution. It was based on Lytton Strachey's, consisting not so much in a special pronunciation of words as in the cadences of sentences. 1954J. K. Johnstone (title) The Bloomsbury Group.
2. A member of the Bloomsbury group. Chiefly in pl. and humorously respelt Bloomsberries (see quot. 1956).
1917J. M. Murry Let. 15 Sept. in A. Alpers Katherine Mansfield (1980) 253, I think these rumours that are put into motion, whether by Clive or the other Bloomsburies, too preposterous to be taken seriously. 1948Wyndham Lewis Let. 9 Oct. (1963) 460 It was written by Raymond Mortimer—an old Bloomsbury. 1956C. Bell Old Friends viii. 129 The name [sc. Bloomsbury] was first applied to a set of friends by Lady MacCarthy—Mrs. Desmond MacCarthy as she then was—in a letter: she calls them ‘the Bloomsberries’. The term, as she used it, had a purely topographical import; and the letter, which doubtless could be found at the bottom of one of five or six tin boxes, must have been written in 1910 or 1911. 1967E. B. C. Lucas in M. Holroyd Lytton Strachey I. ix. 409 Like all ‘Bloomsberries’, he [sc. Lytton Strachey] disliked pretension and silliness. 1981Sunday Times 1 Feb. 43/1 To the Bloomsberries she boldly attributes a liberating power over her young life.
Hence ˈBloomsburyite.
1933Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 148/4 The descriptions..of young earnest and well-meaning Bloomsburyites..could not be bettered. |