单词 | marriage money |
释义 | marriage moneyn. 1. Money given to a bride as a dowry; (also) money raised by a man to enable him to marry. 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 1454 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 155 He wulde haue his mariage mony hym-self. 1504 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 328 If my dowghter Elizabethe dy..I will that my dowghter Cecyll hawe of hyre mareage mony .1. markeȝ. 1569 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. ii. 314 (note) He shall haue 1001..as towcher and mariadge money, whiche I gaue him with my dowghter Anne. 1605 London Prodigall sig. D4v Bail me, and let me haue my marriage mony Paid me. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Paraphonalia, is used in our Law, but in the Civil it is Paraphernalia, which are those Goods a Wife brings her Husband, over and besides her Dowry or Marriage money. 1853 Littell's Living Age 9 Apr. 96/1 I know now what you mean—that's if she did not pay the marriage money. 1875 Scribner's Monthly June 173/1 The best room in the house is taken for the use of strangers, furnished with articles that are avowedly too expensive to be used, and the cost of which makes a serious hole in the marriage-money. 1915 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 45 36 The presents given at marriage should be:–..Kurdin Damren Aure (binding marriage-money), when the wedding has been arranged. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. x. 9/1 He could ask the girl, who loves him desperately, to wait for a very long time while he bought his dhow, established his business and earned the marriage money. 1990 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 11 Feb. 12 (headline) Pressure over marriage money may force Asian women to leave home or even end in their deaths. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services barber feec1380 alnage1418 school fee1512 pinlocka1525 warden-fee1531 wait fee1563 fullage1611 pipe-moneya1637 marriage money1674 sharping-corn1681 spy-money1713 crimpage1732 cooperage1755 stirrup money1757 stub-money1776 membership fee1860 1674 in A. W. Johnston Church in Orkney (1940) 18 Receaved of mariag money from Wm. Keldall 20s which was givine to Nicoll Craigie reader in pairt payment of his wages for the year 73. 1681 in J. B. Craven Hist. Church in Orkney 1662–88 (1893) xi. 83 My Lord Bishop..ordains the minister..to pay him [sc. the Reader]..for bygone yeires, and..he is to get the marriage money and penalties that were to be gotten. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1454 |
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