Bowery vs Dowery - What's the difference?
bowery | dowery |
Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
* 1906 , , "Fate and the Apothecary," in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories ,
(archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 65,
* Bancroft
As nouns the difference between bowery and dowery
is that bowery is in the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate while dowery is alternative form of dowry.As an adjective bowery
is sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.As a proper noun Bowery
is a street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low social and economic class. (usually the Bowery..bowery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.
Noun
(boweries)- 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
