Associations to the word «Dowery»

Noun

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Wiktionary

DOWERY, noun. Alternative form of dowry

Dictionary definition

DOWERY, noun. Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope