All 8 Uses of
dowry
in
War and Peace
- He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.†
Chpt 3 *
- He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera.†
Chpt 6
- When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but one of these estates had already been sold, and the other was mortgaged and the interest so much in arrears that it would have to be sold, so that it was impossible to give it to Vera.†
Chpt 6
- Berg had already been engaged a month, and only a week remained before the wedding, but the count had not yet decided in his own mind the question of the dowry, nor spoken to his wife about it.†
Chpt 6
- A few days before the wedding Berg entered the count's study early one morning and, with a pleasant smile, respectfully asked his future father-in-law to let him know what Vera's dowry would be.†
Chpt 6
- But Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at least part of the dowry in advance, he would have to break matters off.†
Chpt 6
- Anna Mikhaylovna, who often visited the Karagins, while playing cards with the mother made careful inquiries as to Julie's dowry (she was to have two estates in Penza and the Nizhegorod forests).†
Chpt 8
- The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(dowry) in some societies, money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
or less formally: money or property a bride brings to a marriage