Leafy vs Bowery - What's the difference?
leafy | bowery |
covered with leaves
containing much foliage
in the form of leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
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 adjectives the difference between leafy and bowery
is that leafy is covered with leaves while bowery is sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.As a noun bowery is
(archaic) in the early settlements of new york state, usa, a farm or estate.leafy
English
Alternative forms
* leavy (consisting of leaves; obsolete in the sense "covered with leaves" )Adjective
(er)- leafy trees
- a leafy avenue
Synonyms
* : foliated, laminate, layeredDerived terms
* leafily * leafiness * leafy greens * leafy liverwort * leafy sea dragon * leafy spurge * leafy vegetablebowery
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