bowery

plural boweries

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

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

   2017, Lacie Kotter, “Howell Hotline - Awaiting a welcome sign,”, in The Herald Journal

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   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.

   2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado

comparative bowerier · comparative more bowery · superlative boweriest · superlative most bowery

1. Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.

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

   1906, George Gissing, “Fate and the Apothecary,”, in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

plural boweries · alternative bouwerie · alternative bouwery

1. archaicIn the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.

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

   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

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   His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.

   1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York

plural Bowerys · alternative Bowry

1. A surname from Middle English.

1. A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low socioeconomic class.

   We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery.

   1919, Frank L. Packard, chapter 3, in The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale

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   […] sewer people, derelicts, bag ladies, undergrounders, and Bowery bums. Whatever the cause of their illness, as in Scanners, homeless people are victims but, more importantly, a threat to be eliminated.

   2017, Stephen Pimpare, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens, page 227