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Bowery

noun as in skid row

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I will likely continue buying classic-fit light hickory bowery pants until they stop making them, or until I never go to an office again.

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"Where falls not rain, nor hail, nor any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery willows, crowned with summer sea."

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A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.

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Some words, though foreign in origin, were easy — as in bowery, which means farm in Holland.

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There are streets and squares and alleys in downtown New York that look now exactly as they did when Times Square was a cow pasture and the Bowery really bowery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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