bowery

UK /ˈbaʊəɹi/ US /ˈbaʊəɹi/
noun 2name 2adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.

The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle.

This year’s Easter egg hunt will be at the community bowery on Saturday, April 15.

adj

1

Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.

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

noun

1

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.

The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations[…]

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