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The word "bowery" is Dutch for farm, and the property was once "the Dutch West India Company farm, in the wilderness of what is now the East Village," Shorto said.— theleafchronicle.com - Local News
As you ride by these sparkling waters, through the flowery, bowery, woods, you feel as if you like to pitch tent here--at least for the summer And now we approach a rustic inn by the roadside, rich in shrubbery before it, and green moss from ridge-pole to low drooping eaves, where we change horses.— Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
Beyond it rose Martha's Vineyard, green and cool and bowery, and at its wharf lay a steamer I was, as I said, light-hearted.— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
A bowery was a farm on which the family resided.— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
For the protection of the few cattle which remained, all the men turned out and built a stout fence, "from the great bowery or farm across to Emanuel plantation," near the site of the present Wall street During the whole summer of 1644, the savages were busy carrying the desolating war into every unprotected nook and corner.— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

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