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Blooms·bury (blo̵̅o̅mz′bə rē, -brē; -ber′ē)

noun

a group of literary people and intellectuals residing in or associated with Bloomsbury in the early 20th cent., including Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes

adjective

of or associated with this group the Bloomsbury set
Bloomsbury2 definition

Blooms·bury (blo̵̅o̅mz′bə rē, -brē; -ber′ē)

district in central London, formerly an artistic and literary center

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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