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Definition of Dowery
1. Noun. Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.
Definition of Dowery
1. n. See Dower.
Definition of Dowery
1. Noun. dowry ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dowery
1. dowry [n -ERIES] - See also: dowry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowery
Literary usage of Dowery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"The bride's father or family may receive presents and then bestow them or their
equivalents upon the bride (dowery), or they may bestow presents upon the ..."
2. Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series. Cases Adjudged in the Circuit Courts by Ohio Circuit Courts (1915)
"Without stopping to read these provisions, the effect of them apparently is that
under the law of Italy, a wife can not alienate or dispose of her dowery ..."
3. A Popular Treatise on the Law of Marriage and Divorce by Marvin S. Robinson (1884)
"Similarly a husband lost his interest in the dowery of his wife by any ...
On a divorce for these reasons, a wife recovered her dowery and obtained the ..."
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