dowry

Definition

  • noun: money or property that a wife or wife's family gives to her husband when the wife and husband marry in some cultures
  • noun: the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
  • synonyms: dower

Movie quotes

  • (..) She left the keys with us. Bring them. Yes... You smell of cigarettes... The wine! You forgot about the wine! Come on. I want to show you the dowry. My daddy bought it from Buda. It's very very sweet. Miss... connect me with Boteanu's house, it's not late... it's only o'clock. (..)
    1965 Forest of the Hanged