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Bowery

Bow′er-y

,
Adj.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
A
bowery
maze that shades the purple streams.
Trumbull.

Bow′er-y

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Boweries
.
[D.
bouwerij
.]
A farm or plantation with its buildings.
[U. S. Hist.]
The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on
boweries
or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into “villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.”
Bancroft.

Bow′er-y

,
Adj.
Characteristic of the street called the
Bowery
, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

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Bowery

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English

Proper noun

Bowery

  1. A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low social and economic class. (usually the Bowery.)
    • 1919, Frank L. Packard,The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale, ch. 3,
      We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery.

Adjective

Bowery ‎(comparative more Bowery, superlative most Bowery)

  1. (US, dated) Characteristic of this street; swaggering; flashy.

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See also: Bowery

English

Adjective

bowery ‎(comparative more bowery, superlative most bowery)

  1. Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
    • 1906, George Gissing, "Fate and the Apothecary," in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories,
      Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.

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Noun

bowery ‎(plural boweries)

  1. (archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
    • 1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York, ch. 65,
      His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.
    • Bancroft
      The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations […]

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