Greenwich Village
(ˈgrɛnɪdʒ ˈvɪlɪdʒ)
The name of a quarter of New York, used attrib. to denote the Bohemian outlook and way of life typical of many of its inhabitants. So Greenwich Villager.
| 1924 H. Crane Let. 12 Jan. (1965) ii. 170, I wish you could meet some of my friends, who are not the kind of ‘Greenwich Villagers’ that you may have been thinking they were. 1931 Ibid. 22 June iv. 376 Peggy (Baird) will be here [sc. in Mexico] in a few days—I'd rather..she didn't step into a truly Greenich Village scene. 1962 Listener 4 Oct. 529/2 It was opposed to..socialists, capitalists, Greenwich Villagers, pedants, and Prohibition. 1968 Ibid. 3 Oct. 434/3 Muggeridge impressed me as very much a Bloomsbury type, or what in New York we would perhaps call a Greenwich Village type. |