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Bowery

Bowery Meaning & Definition
Bowery Definition And Meaning

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

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See Also | Manhattan | street

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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