bowery
See also: Bowery
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bowery (plural boweries)
- Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
- 2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado:
- 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.
- 2017, Lacie Kotter, “Howell Hotline - Awaiting a welcome sign,”, in The Herald Journal:
- This year’s Easter egg hunt will be at the community bowery on Saturday, April 15.
Adjective edit
bowery (comparative bowerier or more bowery, superlative boweriest or most bowery)
- Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
- 1906, George Gissing, “Fate and the Apothecary,”, in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories:
- Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.
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Translations edit
Sheltered by trees; leafy
Etymology 2 edit
From bower + -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.
Noun edit
bowery (plural boweries)
- (archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
- 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
- His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations […]