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marriage-portions

marriage-portions is the plural of marriage-portion.

Meaning of marriage-portion

Noun

marriage-portion (plural marriage-portions)

  1. A dowry, either paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family, or by the groom's family to the bride or her family, at the time of marriage.
    • Minora gained by the visit—a marriage-portion, which made her lover's father as polite to the heiress as he had been cold to the beauty. He had negatived the features which his son had most eloquently pleaded; but he had nothing to say against the pistoles.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 291

Questions about marriage-portions

What is marriage-portions the plural of?
Marriage-portions is the plural of marriage-portion.

Words near marriage-portions in the dictionary

  1. marriage vow
  2. marriage vows
  3. marriage-broker
  4. marriage-brokers
  5. marriage-portion
  6. marriage-portions
  7. marriageability
  8. marriageable
  9. marriageableness
  10. marriageables
  11. marriageably

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