Bowery
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:45 pm
by Slava
Who would'a thunk it? The Bowery is a "cultivated" area? In its Dutch origins it doth seem to be. It is generally populated by boors, but that type of cultivator tends to be uncultivated. CF the South African Boer, too.
Re: Bowery
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:11 am
by Philip Hudson
I believe the Bowery was the farm of Peter Stuyvesant.
Similar words are bower(a sheltered place), Bauer (German for farmer) and Bowers, a family name. Are any of you old enough to remember the movies about the Bowery Boys? I am.