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Definition of Boweries
1. bowery [n] - See also: bowery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boweries
Literary usage of Boweries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"CHAPTER Time frontier boweries were again assailed by a ... boweries, of which
only three remained on time Island of ..."
2. New York: A Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Metropolitan by Daniel Curry (1853)
"From the fort, and beyond the triangle described above, a broad and straight
roadway led back toward the cultivated boweries farther up the island. ..."
3. Peter Stuyvesant, Director-general for the West India Company in New Netherland by Bayard Tuckerman (1893)
"When replaced by Wilhelm Kieft in 1637, he hired two of the Company's best
boweries, or farms ; and it happened that upon these particular ..."
4. Peter Stuyvesant by Bayard Tuckerman (1893)
"When replaced by Wilhelm Kieft in 1637) he hired two of the Company's best
boweries, or farms ; and it happened that upon these particular ..."
5. The Story of the Mormons: From the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901 by William Alexander Linn (1902)
"In the larger camps the travellers were accustomed to make what they called "boweries" —
large arbors covered with a framework of poles, and thatched with ..."
6. Anglo-French Reminiscences, 1875-1899 by Matilda Betham-Edwards (1900)
"had hollowed out little boweries for summer use. ... But these boweries were
sometimes moistened with something else besides rain and dew. ..."
7. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"The boweries were more completely covered, and a greater proportion of bark was
used in the construction of them. They are between sixty and seventy in ..."
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