bowery
[noun]
Synonyms: skid row, skid road

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bowery adjective. ['baʊǝri] E18.
[from BOWER noun¹ + -Y¹.]
Embowering; leafy, shady.

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bowery noun & adjective. ['baʊǝri] US. M17.
[Dutch bouwerij husbandry, farm, from bouwen cultivate: cf. BOOR & see -ERY.]
A. noun. A (former) farm or plantation in Dutch colonial America; spec. (the Bowery) a street in New York City (on the site of a former governor's bowery) notorious as a resort of prostitutes, drunks, derelicts, etc. M17.
b. attrib. or as adjective. (Bowery.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Bowery in New York City; disreputable, rough, rowdy. M19.

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