About The Word Bowery
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Bowery
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What's The Definition Of Bowery?
[n] a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
[adj] like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bowery: leafy Related Terms | Find terms related to Bowery: Bowery In Webster's Dictionary \Bow"er*y\, a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
--Trumbull.
\Bow"er*y\, n.; 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\, a. Characteristic of the street called the {Bowery}, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. |
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