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bowery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bowery has 1 sense
- bowery(n = noun.location) Array - a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts; Array is a kind of street
is a part of manhattan
Adjective bowery has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
bowery, a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. [1913 Webster]
"A bowery maze that shades the purple streams."
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bowery, n. [D. bouwerij.].
A farm or plantation with its buildings. [1913 Webster]
"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.”"
[1913 Webster]
bowery, a.
Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bowery, n. (also Bowery) (pl. -ies) US a district known as a resort of drunks and down-and-outs.
Etymology
orig. the Bowery, a street in New York City, f. Du. bouwerij farm
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