What is "dowries"

Usage examples of "dowries".

I'll bet the Professora would know all the historical details, including the cases where the dowries had to be dragged out by force.

Anyway, dowries were what the girl's family gave the fellow, not the other way around.

Reasonable dowries, then, in case they choose to marry rather than lead apes in Hell.

Zachary Dowries disapproved of Laurence's suggestion as a matter of course because he dis­liked any form of change.

These works of enormous antiquarian re search teem with information of more than dynastic interest, such as Anselm’s item about the Gascon lord who bequeathed a hundred livres for the dowries of poor girls he had deflowered.

A Christian duty of particular merit was the donation of dowries to en­able poor girls to marry, as in the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to “those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.

So many adventurers took advantage of orphans to obtain rich dowries that the oligarchy of Siena forbade the marriage of female orphans without their kinsmen’s consent.

Rich peasants are recorded who employed a dozen field hands and gave their daughters dowries of 50 gold florins plus a fur-trimmed mantle and fur bedcover.

The Visconti gold was so entangled in complex financial deals, dowries, and exchanges between Jean and Galeazzo that it seems not to have assisted the ransom.

Bernabo’s marriage policy had for some time been cutting into Gian Galeazzo’s sov­ ereignty, owing to Bernabo’s habit of giving away, as dowries, Vis­ conti territories or their revenues to which the nephew had equal title—and without consulting him.

NB Did Metellus senior fully pay up the dowries of his own two daughters?

He worries that his girls' dowries will be frittered away while in other hands.

As the girls' guardian, I will, of course, provide dowries, which should help in some measure.

As I am now their legal guardian, I would like to provide them with proper dowries and, indeed, a season in London.