dowry
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈdaʊəɹi//
- États-Unis//ˈdaʊɹi//
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
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Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
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Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family.
The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)
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obsolèteInheritance from a deceased husband to his widow.
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A natural gift or talent.
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familierA large amount.
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.
Étymologie
From Middle English dowarye, dowerie, from Anglo-Norman dowarie, douarie, from Old French douaire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dower.
verbe
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To bestow a dowry upon.
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1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19
Formes
- pluriel
- dowries
- passé
- dowried
- participe passé
- dowried
- participe présent
- dowrying
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- dowries
dowry · Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
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