Meaning of Marriage-portion | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

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Examples

“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.”

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