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dowage

dowage noun: dower; dowry.

Noun

dowage (plural dowages)

  1. (obsolete) dower; dowry.
    • Leland, living at the time, is a good authority; and he describes Corsham as “a good uplandish toun, wher be ruines of an old maner place: and therby a park wont to be yn dowage to the Quenes of Englande.1875, Edward Hungerford Goddard, editor, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: Volumes 15-16, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 325

Forms of dowage

pluraldowages

Origin of dowage

From Old French douage, from douer + -age, from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”). By surface analysis, dow + -age.

Questions about dowage

What does dowage mean?
Dowage means dower; dowry.
What part of speech is dowage?
Dowage is a noun.
What is the plural of dowage?
The plural of dowage is dowages.

Words near dowage in the dictionary

  1. dow
  2. Dow Jones
  3. Dow process
  4. Dow theory
  5. dowable
  6. dowage
  7. dowager
  8. dowager's hump
  9. dowager's humps
  10. dowagerial
  11. dowagerish

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