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  1. In civil law: Property brought to a husband by his wife, upon marriage. See dotal *property.
  2. A common-law dower. See dower, 2.

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  • VideoNewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that many female politicians attending a women's caucus felt discussions about women in politics are good, no matter which side of the political aisle a woman is on, even if some of the topics center around irrelevant issues, such as female politician's hair-dos or pantsuits. —  TheBostonChannel.com - News
  • If your outcome is big, or consists of many categories of to-dos, then we must break each sub-outcome into its own outcome block. —  doggdot.us
  • I filter out all but the green, the school's best and brightest, and find one of tonight's to-dos: Kalpen Singh, captain of the baseball team, so-so scores but good connections, right in the middle of Joe's. —  Futurismic
  • Also up for re-dos or follow-ups are "Footloose," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Dune," —  California Chronicle
  • In Spanish it's "dos," in Slovak it's "dva," in Farsi it's "do" and in Hindi it's "do" -- all of which are strikingly similar ways of denoting the number two. —  CNN.com
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  1. Latin dōs (dōt-), dower: see dower, dotal.
 

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