Dowry vs Cassone - What's the difference?
dowry | cassone |
Payment, as property or money, of a bride’s inheritance by her family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.Gary Ferraro & Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology , 8th edn. (Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth, 2010), 223.
To bestow a dowry upon.
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* 2013 Noreen Giffney, ?Margrit Shildrick, Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference ,
* 1911 , Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London , Page 108
* 1976 , Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction ,
A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 107:
*:There was the huge Italian cassone , with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
*1941 , (W Somerset Maugham), Up at the Villa , Vintage 2004, p. 45:
*:On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.
As nouns the difference between dowry and cassone
is that dowry is payment, as property or money, of a bride’s inheritance by her family to the groom or his family at the time of marriagegary ferraro & susan andreatta, cultural anthropology , 8th edn (belmont, cal: wadsworth, 2010), 223 while cassone is a highly-decorated traditional italian dowry chest.As a verb dowry
is to bestow a dowry upon.dowry
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(wikipedia dowry)Noun
(dowries)Antonyms
* dower * bride priceHypernyms
* marriage portionVerb
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