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dowry
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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
  • Part of the dowry was the Port of Bombay in India….'  (source)
  • 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
  • Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides' prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers.†  (source)
  • The four trunks were part of Grandma's dowry.  (source)
  • 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)
  • No dowry?  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • There was the vital matter of two dowries.  (source)
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