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Dowry vs Tapestry - What's the difference?

dowry | tapestry |

As nouns the difference between dowry and tapestry

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 tapestry is a heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.

As verbs the difference between dowry and tapestry

is that dowry is to bestow a dowry upon while tapestry is (intransitive) to decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

dowry

English

(wikipedia dowry)

Noun

(dowries)
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * dower * bride price

    Hypernyms

    * marriage portion

    Related terms

    * reverse dowry * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To bestow a dowry upon.
  • * 1999 , Judith Everard, ?Michael C. E. Jones, Charters Duchess Constance Br , Page xvi
  • * 2013 Noreen Giffney, ?Margrit Shildrick, Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference , Page 62
  • * 1911 , Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London , Page 108
  • * 1976 , Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction , Page 19

    • See also

    * glory box * hope chest * trousseau

    References

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    tapestry

    English

    Noun

    (tapestries)
  • A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry -hung wall behind.}}
  • (by extension)  Anything with variegated or complex details.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=January-February
    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

    Verb

  • (intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1833, author=Adolphus Slade, title=Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. citation
    • , passage=We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, date=September 13, author=, title=English Note-Books citation
    • , passage=The banqueting-hall, all open to the sky, and with thick curtains of ivy tapestrying the walls, and grass and weeds growing on the arches that overpass it, is indescribably beautiful.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Israel Zangwill, title=The Cockpit: Romantic Drama in Three Acts citation
    • , passage=I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags.}}

    See also

    * tapetum lucidum