dowry

dowry englannista suomeksi

1. myötäjäiset

0. Substantiivi

1. myötäjäiset (monikko)

1. Verbi

dowry englanniksi

1. Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's 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.

2. Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: price.

3. (quote-text)

4. Dower.

5. A natural gift or talent.

6. A large amount.

7. (rfquotek)

But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.

8. To bestow a dowry upon.

9. (alternative form of)