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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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