1906, George_Gissing, "Fate and the Apothecary," in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories,Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.
1809, Washington_Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York, ch. 65,His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.
BancroftThe emigrants New York were scattered on boweries or plantations...
