dowries in English

noun
1
property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.
The bride brings a dowry to the marriage usually consisting of household goods and her own clothing.
synonyms:marriage settlement(marriage) portiondot
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1. Examples: Extortion; blackmail; soliciting or promoting dowries

2. The 1961 law forbidding dowries further undermined traditional Hinduism.

3. 28 For single middle-class women without dowries there was only the prospect of becoming a governess or companion.

4. A newspaper reporter stationed in eastern Africa wrote: “Young people choose to elope to escape excessive dowries demanded by tenacious in-laws.”

5. In one such article, Michel Melot describes how the wealth and power of the Abbesses of the Order of Fontevrault in the Anjou region established a tradition of artistic patronage in which the Abbesses, daughters, of prominent aristocrats, brought dowries and family names that raised their religious order to high political, economic, and