Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle.2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado:
This year’s Easter egg hunt will be at the community bowery on Saturday, April 15.2017, Lacie Kotter, “Howell Hotline - Awaiting a welcome sign,”, in The Herald Journal:
bowery
adj
Etymology From bower + -y.
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Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.1906, George Gissing, “Fate and the Apothecary,”, in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories:
Etymology From bower + -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.
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Archaic In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations[…]1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC: