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Bowery   /bˈaʊəri/   Listen
noun
Bowery  n.  (pl. boweries)  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.""



adjective
Bowery  adj.  Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. "A bowery maze that shades the purple streams."



Bowery  adj.  Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.






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... stars and stripes were hoisted to a tree top, and the work of enrollment began. Within three days the little army was organized and ready for the march. Then they had a grand farewell party, held, not in some beautifully lighted ball room, but in a bowery, where the ground had been packed hard by the tread of many feet. There fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and sweethearts said their goodbyes to ...
— A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Nephi Anderson

... had no knowledge of the fact that Hansen carried money carefully concealed, O'Brien, probably with some disgust, did nothing. That O'Brien "had murder in his heart" is more than likely, because when his trial came off a "Bowery tough" who had been in prison with him in Dawson for some other offence testified that O'Brien had proposed that they should, when freed, go along the river and find a lonely spot. Here they should camp, shoot men who were coming out from Dawson with money, ...
— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

... within sight of the cottage, where she had been with John, too small and expensive for their present numbers and means, and looking up at its bowery wicket, gathered up the ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... between the hedgerows green, How we wandered—I and you; With the bowery tops shut in, And the gates that ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence

... was worked so successfully that the numerous jewelry concerns that had sprung up in Maiden Lane and on the Bowery could not fill the orders for the brass ornaments required to supply the enterprises ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field


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