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bowery

1

[ bou-uh-ree ]

adjective

  1. containing bowers; bower; leafy; shady:

    a bowery maze.



bowery

2

[ bou-uh-ree, bou-ree ]

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 populated by people who were destitute and homeless.

Bowery

/ ˈbaʊərɪ /

noun

  1. the Bowery
    the Bowery a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks


Bowery

  1. A section of lower Manhattan in New York City .


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bowery1

First recorded in 1695–1705; bower 1 + -y 1

Origin of bowery2

An Americanism dating back to 1640–50; from Dutch bouwerij “farm,” equivalent to bouw “cultivation” + -erij -ery

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bowery1

C17: from Dutch bouwerij , from bouwen to farm + erij -ery ; see boor , Boer

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Example Sentences

Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See is on display at Salon 94 Bowery through April 28.

Chu and Associates were planning to build a 20-story, 220 room hotel at 50-52 Bowery near the Manhattan Bridge.

Photos by the late Jimmy DeSana are now on view at Salon 94 on the Bowery in New York.

Since the New Museum opened on the Bowery in late 2007, a steady stream of galleries have set up shop on the Lower East Side.

Then she went to meet Beckman at the Bowery Hotel for breakfast and liked him immediately.

Shoulders raised, heads bent, and shivering, we keep on to the lower Bowery.

Snipes came up and helped him down and out, and the old man and the boy walked slowly and in silence out to the Bowery.

The Bowery is crowded with a cosmopolitan horde which is never still.

His little black eyes travel further and faster than his legs, and rove up and down and across the Bowery ceaselessly.

It was easy to see, as Mr. Ricketty wandered aimlessly down the Bowery, that his humor was entirely amiable.

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