dowry
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noun (English)
1. (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family.Examples: "The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)"Synonyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower, ;, see others at bride pricecountableuncommonuncountable
2. (obsolete) Inheritance from a deceased husband to his widow.Synonyms: dowercountableobsoleteuncountable
3. (informal) A large amount.Examples: "But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink."countableinformaluncountable
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