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Dowerless

adjective
1.
Lacking a dowry.





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"Dowerless" Quotes from Famous Books



... Piero, who was rich, fell in love with his own niece, the beautiful Olimpia, the dowerless daughter of his other brother Curzio; and Curzio, tempted by the hope of wealth, consented to the match, and the dispensation of the Church was obtained for the marriage. It is not rare, even nowadays, for a man ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford


Words linked to "Dowerless" :   unendowed, archaicism, archaism


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