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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. --Trumbull. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bowery \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Characteristic of the street called the {Bowery}, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 [syn: {Bowery}]
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