dowry
noun
Also the money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage.
dowery
-
a variation of
dowry.
Example Sentences
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The property on which it is established is the little Levigne estate––the one forming the only dowery of Judithe Levigne when she married Philip Alain––Marquis de Caron.
From The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan
Fate all flowery, Bright and bowery, Is her dowery!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
I consented that Elizabeth should return, and gave her husband five thousand pounds as her dowery, with a promise of more, if they should conduct themselves to my satisfaction.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
And know, besides, sweet daughter of Zion, that were the most Christian king to offer me his most Christian daughter, with Languedoc for a dowery, I could not wed her.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Farewell, Kathi; now that you have a dowery, you will speedily find a husband.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
