NOUN (1)

1. a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. like a bower; leafy and shady;
- Example: "a bowery lane"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. Boweries. [D. bouwerij.]
   A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
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         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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
   Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York
   city; swaggering; flashy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
   Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
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         A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
                                                  --Trumbull.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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 derelicts