Found 3 items, similar to Bowery.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bowery
rimbun, teduh
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bowery
bowery
adj : like a bower; leafy and shady;
“a bowery lane”
n : a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
homeless derelicts
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bowery
Bowery
\Bow"er*y\, a.
Characteristic of the street called the
Bowery, in New York
city; swaggering; flashy.
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Bowery
\Bow"er*y\, a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
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A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
--Trumbull.
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Bowery
\Bow"er*y\, n.; pl.
Boweries. [D. bouwerij.]
A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
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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.
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