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She was given her inheritance in the form of a dowry.dowry = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
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Dowries are common in that culture.
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He and Maria lived in a small garage apartment furnished with a few grand pieces from her dowry mixed with flea-market tables and chairs. (source)dowry = property a bride brings to a marriage
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The trustees will sell that and use the money for her dowry. (source)dowry = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
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Part of the dowry was the Port of Bombay in India….' (source)
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The dowry was enough, more than enough, said my father. (source)
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But Mercy had never given a thought to a dowry. (source)dowry = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
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Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides' prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers.† (source)
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The four trunks were part of Grandma's dowry. (source)
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He was to manage the plantation as I bad done for my mother and sister; he was to negotiate marriages, to put together dowries when the entire fortune of the place rode precariously on the next year's sugar crop; he was to bargain, fight, and keep at a distance the entire material world for the world of Freniere.† (source)
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No dowry? (source)
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And he smiled, and said it did not appear to trouble the young men, as the girls saved up their wages for their dowries, and a dowry was always acceptable.† (source)
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Let this be my daughter's wedding dowry. (source)dowry = in some societies, money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
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Photography, reproduced by the half-tone process, has made me familiar with the appearance of the daughters of the English peerage; and I can honestly say that I would have sold the lot, faces, dowries, clothes, titles, and all, for a smile from this woman.† (source)dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
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The sister also had a dowry of thirty thousand rupees, and both Lalla and Vere were short of money at the time, for both enjoyed expensive drinking sessions. (source)
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There was the vital matter of two dowries. (source)
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