All 7 Uses
dowry
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Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- Her father gave away a zippy red Maruti and a refrigerator in the dowry.†
p. 15.5
- A daughter had to be married off before she could enter heaven, and dowries beggared families for generations.†
p. 39.6dowries = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
- By the time my turn to marry came around, there would be no dowry money left to gift me the groom I deserved.†
p. 40.6
- I was a sister without dowry, but I didn't have to be a sister without prospects.†
p. 70.1
- Ours was a no-dowry, no-guests Registry Office wedding in a town a 250-rupee taxi ride south of Hasnapur.†
p. 75.2 *
- In the case of a deceased married woman, for instance, is her dowry jewelry properly returned to her parents, the dowry givers, or is it the property of her husband or, in the case of multiple death, of the husband's parents?†
p. 94.7
- In the case of a deceased married woman, for instance, is her dowry jewelry properly returned to her parents, the dowry givers, or is it the property of her husband or, in the case of multiple death, of the husband's parents?†
p. 94.7
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.