Definition of Bowery
Bow´er`y
a.
1.
Shading
,
like
a
bower
;
full
of
bowers
.
A
bowery
maze
that
shades
the
purple
streams
.
- Trumbull.
n.
1.
A
farm
or
plantation
with
its
buildings
.
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.
a.
1.
Characteristic
of
the
street
called
the
Bowery
,
in
New
York
city
;
swaggering
;
flashy
.
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