All 4 Uses
dowry
in
The Bonesetter's Daughter
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- As to the matter of a dowry, the coffin-maker was willing to be more than generous.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Since the girl was to be a second wife and not a first, couldn't her dowry be a jar of opium and a jar of dragon bones?†
Chpt 2.1
- In one of the carts was the dowry, the jar of opium and the jar of dragon bones, the last of his supply.†
Chpt 2.1
- They were my dowry.†
Chpt 2.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in some societies, a dowry may be given by a husband to his new wife. It can also refer to money paid upon entry to a monastic order.