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dowry
/ ˈ»å²¹ÊŠÉ™°ùɪ /
noun
- the money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- (esp formerly) a gift made by a man to his bride or her parents
- Christianity a sum of money required on entering certain orders of nuns
- a natural talent or gift
- obsolete.a widow's dower
dowry
- Money, property, or material goods that a bride's family gives to the bridegroom or his family at the time of the wedding. In many cultures , the dowry not only helps to cement the relationship between the bride's and groom's families but also serves to reinforce traditional family roles and gender roles .
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dowry1
C14: from Anglo-French douarie, from Medieval Latin »åųÙÄå°ù¾±³Ü³¾; see dower
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Indian police said they arrested Mr Lamba's parents under what is locally called the "dowry death" law.
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The film also tackles the social evil that is dowry - the practice of the bride's family gifting cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.
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This is no hostile takeover proposal — more like an actual proposal-proposal, with a really big dowry.
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"So many of my friends have had to leave school, or never been to school because someone paid a dowry to marry them, so their fathers had married them off," she says.
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The law was introduced in 1983 after a spate of dowry deaths in Delhi and elsewhere in the country.
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