| 单词 | marriage dowry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarriage dowry marriage dowry n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry moryeveOE marriagea1325 dowing1382 dowerc1386 dowrya1400 marriage money1454 marriage good1478 tocher1496 dote1509 jointurea1513 portion1513 endowry1523 tocher-good1538 dowagea1552 marriage dowrya1616 wedding-dowera1616 marriage portion1616 portion money1625 fortune1702 dot1822 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 223 The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry . View more context for this quotation 1715 J. Morrice et al. tr. H. Grotius Of Rights War & Peace I. iii. 150 So Amphipolis was given in Marriage Dowry to Acama, Son of Theseus; and Agamemnon promises in Homer to give Achilles seven Cities. 1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xii. 111 Eight castles, with their domains, were given her by her father as a marriage-dowry. 1993 ELH 60 599 Mariana had a brother who ‘miscarried’ at sea, thus losing her marriage dowry. 2011 K. L. Turner in M. P. Romaniello & C. T. Lipp Contested Spaces Nobility vii. 130 Professing sisters paid a doti spirituali similar in function to the marriage dowry. < as lemmas |
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