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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdowarye,dowerie, fromAnglo-Normandowarie,douarie, fromOld Frenchdouaire, fromMedieval Latindōtārium, fromLatindōs.Doublet ofdower.

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dowry (countable anduncountable,pluraldowries)

  1. Payment, such asproperty ormoney, paid by thebride's family to thegroom or his family at the time ofmarriage.[1]
  2. (less common) Payment by thegroom or his family to thebride's family:bride price.
    • 2009, Peter Uvin,Life after Violence: A People's Story of Burundi, page125:
      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 thedowry (crucial, for withoutdowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)
  3. (obsolete)Dower.
  4. A natural gift or talent.
  5. (informal) A large amount.
    • 1928,E. M. Forster,The Eternal Moment
      But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a wholedowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.

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Translations

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property or payment given at time of marriage

References

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  • (large amount):John Camden Hotten (1873)The Slang Dictionary

Verb

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dowry (third-person singular simple presentdowries,present participledowrying,simple past and past participledowried)

  1. To bestow a dowry upon.
    • 1999, Judith Everard, Michael C. E. Jones,Charters Duchess Constance Br,page xvi:
    • 2013, Noreen Giffney, Margrit Shildrick,Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference,page62:
    • 1911, Aida Rodman De Milt,Ways and Days Out of London, page108:
      1976, Graham Anderson,Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction,Page 19

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References

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  1. ^Gary Ferraro & Susan Andreatta,Cultural Anthropology, 8th edn. (Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth, 2010), 223.

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dowry

  1. Alternative form ofdowarye
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