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Bowery

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Noun

1. bowery

a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts

Adjective

2. bowery

like a bower; leafy and shady

Example Sentences:
'a bowery lane'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bowery

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noun
the Bowery

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Bowery

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nounWord forms: plural ˈboweries
a farm or plantation of an early Dutch settler of New York

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bowery

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A section of lower Manhattan in New York City. The street that gives the area its name was once the road to Peter Stuyvesant's bouwerij, or farm. The Bowery was once notorious for its saloons, petty criminals, and derelicts.

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