All 10 Uses
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- Padmini next, and she too made a good match and was married fittingly, taking jewels and dowry with her, but when it came to Thangam, only relations from our own village came to the wedding and not from the surrounding districts as they had done before, and the only jewel she had was a diamond nose-screw.†
Chpt 1
- Four dowries is too much for a man to bear.†
Chpt 1dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- Our relatives, I know, murmured that the match was below me; my mother herself was not happy, but I was without beauty and without dowry and it was the best she could do.†
Chpt 1 *
- For who knows what dowry there will be for you when you are ready!†
Chpt 2
- Nathan at first paid scant attention to her: he had wanted a son to continue his line and walk beside him on the land, not a puling infant who would take with her a dowry and leave nothing but a memory behind; but soon she stopped being a puling infant, and when at the age of ten months she called him "Apa," which means father, he began to take a lively interest in her.†
Chpt 2
- If they return we shall have a fine dowry for our daughter, and that is indeed a good thing.†
Chpt 4
- "A dowry of one hundred rupees," I said.†
Chpt 6
- "They will expect a large dowry," I said regretfully.†
Chpt 6
- It will make up for a small dowry-in this case.†
Chpt 6
- With a dowry it was perhaps possible she might marry again; without it no man would look at her, no longer a virgin and reputedly barren.†
Chpt 11
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.