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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Fate all flowery, Bright and bowery, Is her dowery!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
And when thei are come to mannes state, thei marye at the kynges pleasure: And be enriched both with dowery of their wife, and a stipende.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt
And jest at this time the dowery in Loontown fell onto Elnathan, so that they all come East.
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm
When virginity Seeks, all coyful, Man's affinity; 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
