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containing bowers; leafy; shady: a bowery maze.
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noun, plural bow·er·ies.
1.
(among the Dutch settlers of New York) a farm or country seat.
2.
the Bowery, a street and area in New York City, historically noted for its cheap hotels and saloons and peopled by the destitute and homeless.
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bowery
"farm, plantation," from Du. bowerij "homestead farm" (from the same source as bower); a Du. word probably little used in America outside New York, and there soon limited to one road, The Bowery, that ran from the built-up part of the city out to the plantations in middle
EXPAND Manhattan, attested from 1787; the city's growth soon overran it, and it was noted by 1840 as a commercial district notorious for squalor, rowdiness, and low life.
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