Meaning of bowerland | Babel Free

Definitions

A rural area; farmland; bowery.

archaic, no-plural, rare

Examples

“When Peter Stuyvesant became director-general of New Netherlands in 1647 by appointment of the Dutch West India Company, he resided on his farm, or bowery, which name⟳ the place⟳ retains to this day, though the scent of roses has long since left it. Later this same bowerland was the center of fashion, the Bowery Street a popular driveway, wealth and gaiety crowding its borders while yet the Broadway was a country road winding among humble farms and odorous stockyards.”

“The Grey Bower has woodwork of white, with grey walls decorated with a bowerland of rose and fuchsia, and having an undergrowth of blue-bells.”

“Babyland never again will be thine, Land⟳ of all mystery, holy, divine, Motherland, otherland, Wonderland, underland, Land⟳ of a time ne'er again to be seen; Flowerland, bowerland, Airyland, fairyland, Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green.”

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