All 32 Uses
dowry
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- Those embroidered shoes were only three and a half centimeters long and were made from a special piece of red silk that my mother had saved from her dowry.†
Chpt 3
- She does business with men, establishing bride prices, haggling over dowries, and serving as a go-between.†
Chpt 3 *dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- The matchmaker's announcement, although a good omen for me, meant that my father would have to work very hard to build a dowry appropriate for a higher marriage.†
Chpt 3
- Though she was virtuous and hardworking, her brothers would not offer a dowry.†
Chpt 4
- It might also lower any hidden costs they would have to pay the matchmaker and lessen what they would have to provide for my dowry.†
Chpt 4
- So, as a girl, I prepared my earth—getting a piece of paper from Baba or asking Elder Sister for a tiny scrap of her dowry cloth—on which to plant.†
Chpt 6
- Even Elder Sister, so serious with all her dowry work, tittered into her sleeve.†
Chpt 6
- Obviously they were apprehensive about four marriages in one household and whether Baba would come through with the promised bride-price for Elder Brother's wife, adequate dowries for the three girls, and, most important, the matchmaking fees.†
Chpt 7dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- I have heard that some girls have had to give up their betrothals because their families can no longer provide dowries.†
Chpt 7
- The dowry was displayed and everyone commented on the quality of Elder Sister's handiwork.†
Chpt 7
- We worked on our dowries in earnest.†
Chpt 8dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- Months ago, each of our future in-laws had Delivered the Dates for our weddings, along with the first installments of our official brideprices—more pork and candy, as well as empty wooden boxes to fill with all the things we would make for our dowries.†
Chpt 9
- They were to be used in preparing my dowry, just as Beautiful Moon and Snow Flower had to use their gifts to build their dowries.†
Chpt 9
- They were to be used in preparing my dowry, just as Beautiful Moon and Snow Flower had to use their gifts to build their dowries.†
Chpt 9dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- We made a pretty picture sitting there on those quilts with our legs tucked under us just so: three young maidens, all betrothed to good families, cheerfully working on our dowries, showing our good manners to those who visited.†
Chpt 9
- During those last four weeks as I finished my dowry, she helped me in many ways and we became even closer.†
Chpt 10
- My brothers helped load my dowry into waiting palanquins.†
Chpt 10
- People unloaded my dowry.†
Chpt 10
- My hands traveled over other items in her dowry.†
Chpt 11
- Snow Flower's actual bride-price gifts were mini-mal, but she'd taken pieces from her own clothes to create a unique dowry "You will make a remarkable wife," I said, truly awed by what she had accomplished.†
Chpt 11
- My mother recut her dowry clothes to make my outfits when I visited you.†
Chpt 11
- They had taken cloth that had once been sent from Snow Flower's family to Snow Flower's mother as a bride-price gift, been shaped into the dowry of a fine maiden, been reshaped again into clothes for a beautiful daughter, and now restructured another time to announce the qualities of a young woman marrying into the house of a polluted butcher.†
Chpt 11
- I hope you will show my daughter compassion for the poverty of her dowry.†
Chpt 11
- We wanted to see each other, but we didn't have the excuse of visiting to work on our dowries, and the only trips we were allowed to take were to our husbands' homes for conjugal visits.†
Chpt 12dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- Snow Flower took me back upstairs to the women's chamber, where she made a bed with some of her clean, though frayed, dowry quilts.†
Chpt 15
- As I thought this, she brought out an outfit almost identical to hers—almost, because I remembered when she had pieced it together from one of her mother's dowry treasures.†
Chpt 15
- It was late fall, the season when footbinding begins, so many times we encountered young girls whose bones had recently broken and who were now left behind, as had food, extra clothes, water, traveling altars, dowry gifts, and family treasures.†
Chpt 15
- Since the moneys made from the salt business would provide her with a generous dowry, she would marry well.†
Chpt 16
- When we got upstairs, she said, "Once you did me a great kindness by helping me with my dowry.†
Chpt 16
- Just as she helped me step into her dowry pants, we heard a pony's hooves and the creaking wheels of a cart coming near.†
Chpt 16
- This woman who was your neighbor took with her a dowry that was made from her mother's dowry, so that when that poor woman went out onto the street she had no quilts or clothes to keep her warm," I proclaimed.†
Chpt 17
- This woman who was your neighbor took with her a dowry that was made from her mother's dowry, so that when that poor woman went out onto the street she had no quilts or clothes to keep her warm," I proclaimed.†
Chpt 17
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.