Examples of 'dowries' in a sentence
Meaning of "dowries"
A dowry is a transfer of parental property, wealth, or gifts to the bride or her family upon marriage
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- plural of dowry
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You have earned dowries for my daughters.
The dowries consisted of official positions or land.
Burmese do not practice dowries or arranged marriages.
It would not provide my sisters with dowries.
And provide dowries for her sisters.
The young postulants do not contribute dowries.
There were no laws regarding dowries or bride payments.
Perhaps it became part of one of their dowries.
Some with dowries to rival my own.
Effective application of the prohibition on dowries.
Give women their dowries graciously.
All dowries have to be clear before marriage ceremony.
We had to prepare good dowries for them.
Their dowries are already regulated.
I am sure the proof is right beneath the dowries.
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The king financed dowries for each girl.
I do not see you as a hunter of dowries.
Therefore the dowries are part of beatitude.
He also helped poor girls by providing their dowries.
And as to dowries and settlements.
Monasteries were economically supported through convent dowries.
Many rallis are made for dowries to this day.
Our dowries pass to our husbands the moment we marry.
The foundation provides dowries to girls.
Dowries can land families in debt for several years.
They are used to pay bridal dowries.
Great sums of gold and dowries with their wives.
Taking a closer look at their dowries.
Wives sometimes brought dowries of money or land to the marriage.
Animals require no contracts or dowries.
But you swallow the dowries and the daughters too.
Dowries exists in societies where capital is more valuable than manual labor.
We will get our dowries back.
His soldiers were paid dowries to marry locals in an effort to encourage assimilation.
You all had dowries.
Young women without dowries took advantage of this unexpected opportunity to marry.
I do not believe in dowries or.
Payment of dowries was accepted.
Dowries which would enable the girls to marry or to enter a religious order.
Beyond their dowries.
Additional dowries may also be demanded by some parents after children are born.
They needed dowries.
Dowries are gifts from the bride or her family to the husband and his family.
Johnson gave them large farms as dowries from his own holdings.
Give those you have consummated marriage with their due dowries.
The imperial family prepares dowries without waiting for the proclamation of the marriages.
These forms of union are observed especially in regions where dowries before marriage are required.
The law prohibiting dowries had recently been amended to make punishment for offences more stringent.
Their father was not in a position to pay for the dowries for any of them.
We bring you the first dowries from the princes that will come to the tournament.
