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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Anglo-French
Origin: dowarie, from Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dos '(marriage) gift'

dowry

 noun
     
Related topics: Family
dow‧ry plural dowries [countable]
BSSF property and money that a woman gives to her husband when they marry in some societies
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