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bowery 音标拼音: [b'ɑʊɚi] a. 有亭子的,象亭子的,有树荫的 有亭子的,象亭子的,有树荫的 bowery adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; " a bowery lane" n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelictsBowery \ Bow" er* y\, n.; pl. { Boweries}. [ D. bouwerij.] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [ U. S. Hist.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Bowery \ Bow" er* y\, a. Characteristic of the street called the { Bowery}, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. [ 1913 Webster]
Bowery \ Bow" er* y\, a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. [ 1913 Webster] A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. -- Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster]
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