dowage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. dower; dowry. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

dowages plural

词源

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