marriage-portion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

marriage-portions plural
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