as in dower
money or property that a wife or wife's family gives to her husband when the wife and husband marry in some cultures
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Her parents were a Russian count and a merchant’s daughter whose massive dowry elevated her to the aristocracy.
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E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Nannina was betrothed at the age of 13 for a large dowry and brought to her husband’s house five years later.
—Pragya Agarwal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
But Kaur has yet to receive the $8,500 her family paid in dowry, or any other compensation for her decade-plus ordeal.
—Time, 28 June 2023
At a makeshift gold stand on a Rafah street, women sell the last of their jewelry and wedding dowries for cash to feed their families.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
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E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Nannina was betrothed at the age of 13 for a large dowry and brought to her husband’s house five years later.
—Pragya Agarwal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
But Kaur has yet to receive the $8,500 her family paid in dowry, or any other compensation for her decade-plus ordeal.
—Time, 28 June 2023
At a makeshift gold stand on a Rafah street, women sell the last of their jewelry and wedding dowries for cash to feed their families.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
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