marriage portion

noun

First recorded in 1760–70

If she has not borne children to her later husband, the sons of her bridegroom shall take her marriage portion.

Accepting the property from Mr Heatherstone is receiving a favour, were it given as a marriage portion with his daughter.

Besides, it was as much as the marriage-portion of six princesses of Wirtemberg.

They also forbade the women to lament for their relatives, and Licinia was deprived of her marriage portion.

Tell me, Susan—I shall have a marriage-portion, shall I not?

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