Bowery

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. {Boweries}. [D. bouwerij.]
     A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
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           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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
     Characteristic of the street called the {Bowery}, in New York
     city; swaggering; flashy.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
     Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
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           A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
                                                    --Trumbull.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bowery
       adj : like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
       n : a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
           homeless derelicts