bouwerie

Noun (1)

bowery (plural boweries)

1. Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
   • 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.2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado

Noun (2)

bowery (plural boweries)

1. (archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
   • His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York

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