bowery

bower +‎ -y

bowery (comparative more bowery, superlative most bowery)

1. Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
   • 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.

• bower

From bower +‎ -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.

bowery (plural boweries)

1. (archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
   • 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:

     His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.

   • Bancroft

     The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations […]

• Bowyer, bowyer