bowery

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bowery - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
     Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York
     city; swaggering; flashy.
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  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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bowery - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bowery
      adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
      n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
           homeless derelicts