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s | dowry |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun 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.

As a verb dowry is

to bestow a dowry upon.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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

    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

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