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单词 marriage money
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marriage moneyn.

Brit. /ˈmarɪdʒ ˌmʌni/, U.S. /ˈmɛrɪdʒ ˈˌməni/
Forms: see marriage n. and money n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marriage n., money n.
Etymology: < marriage n. + money n.
1. Money given to a bride as a dowry; (also) money raised by a man to enable him to marry.
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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.
2. Scottish. A fee charged for officiating at a marriage ceremony. Obsolete. rare.
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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).
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