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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bow·ery /ˈbaʊ(ə)ri/
 (a.)有亭子的,象亭子的,有樹蔭的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bow·er·y a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
    A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.   --Trumbull.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bow·er·y, n.; pl. Boweries   A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
    The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into =\“villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.”\=   --Bancroft.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bow·er·y, a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 bowery
      adj : like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
      n : a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
          homeless derelicts