'Bowery' definitions:
Definition of 'bowery'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
noun
A street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
Definition of 'Bowery'
From: GCIDE
- Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bowery'
From: GCIDE
- Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. [1913 Webster]
- A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bowery'
From: GCIDE
- Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. Boweries. [D. bouwerij.] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.] [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." --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]