marriage portion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of marriage portion
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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Father, however, has reached the mental age where he cannot let them go, especially when a substantial marriage portion goes with each one.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aubrey insisted on a prompt payment of his wife's marriage portion.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
So Yvonne set out, taking with her Gaston's pet dove and the little sum of money carefully hoarded for her marriage portion.
From Spinning-Wheel Stories by Alcott, Louisa May
I had to leave and become an apothecary, had to marry, take my marriage portion, and set up a shop full of cod-liver oil in a little out-of-the-way town.
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
He kept his promise, and gave Rodrigo Valduerna, Saldana, Belforado, and San Pedro de Cardena, for a marriage portion.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
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