Definitions
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Word origin
From Middle English dowarye, dowerie, from Anglo-Norman dowarie, douarie, from Old French douaire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dower.
Used in a sentence
“But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.”
“1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Marriage property gift”5 letters
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