Meaning of Bowery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Middle English.
2. A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low socioeconomic class.
3. Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
4. In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
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Examples

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“[…] 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.”

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