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Definition of the bowery in English English dictionary

Bowery
A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low social and economic class. (usually the Bowery.)

We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery.

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In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate

His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.

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Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady

Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.

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{a} full of bowers, shady, retired, cool
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Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy
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Shading, like a bower; full of bowers
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{s} leafy and shady
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{i} seedy or run-down district of a city
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like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
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a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
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a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane
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A farm or plantation with its buildings