Bowery
Bowery ({not transcribed}) , adjective
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
Bowery ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Dutch bouwerij.]
A farm or plantation with its buildings. [United States Historical]
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.”
Bowery , adjective
Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.