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dowry
/ˈdaʊəɹi/
noun 5verb 1
Collocations
5(noun.)
ADJ
large, substantial | small
VERB + DOWRY
give sb, pay (sb)
bring
The young woman brought a dowry of land and cattle when she married into the wealthy family.
DOWRY + NOUN
system
Definitions
noun
1
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
2
Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family.
The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)
3
Inheritance from a deceased husband to his widow.
4
A natural gift or talent.
5
A large amount.
But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.
verb
1
To bestow a dowry upon.
1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19
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The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his child
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But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.
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1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19
Wiktionary04
It used to be that a girl could only marry if she had a dowry.
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A beautiful face is half of the dowry.
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Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
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