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Definition of Bride-gift
1. Noun. A wedding present to the bride.
Definition of Bride-gift
1. Noun. (alternative form of bride price) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bride-gift
Literary usage of Bride-gift
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus by Æschylus (1902)
"PROMETHEUS BOUND The song of the bringing home of Hesione, that sprang Of mine
own father, bride Gift-gotten to thy side. . 560 [lo, in form half-woman, ..."
2. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1907)
"Agamemnon, among the gorgeous gifts with which he vainly sues Achilles, offers
to give him one of his daughters, not only without exacting a bride-gift, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... luckless sister; for a bride-gift she dared to ask: — "Give me from thy hands
the ruddy rings, if thou wouldst gain my love, my love and favor all. ..."
4. The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings by Snorri Sturluson, Rasmus Björn Anderson (1907)
"King Olaf, on his part, should give Astrid the same bride-gift that had been
intended for her sister Ingegerd. Thereupon an eke was made to the feast, ..."
5. Silva gadelica (I-XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish with extracts by Standish Hayes O'Grady (1892)
"What bride- gift ?' asked Finn. ' A stipulation that for one year I be thine only
wife, and after that in perpetuity enjoy a full half of thy conjugal ..."
6. Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics by Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse (1906)
"In this period there was no sale by the parents,1 but the bride gift went to the
bride herself, and the husband in the contract further stipulates how much ..."
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