Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gift made to a woman by her husband the morning after marriage: a practice formerly common in Europe (in some places a legal right of the bride), but now nearly obsolete.
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Examples
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The pardon granted, Günther and Hagan at once plotted to have the Nibelungen hoard, Siegfried's morning-gift to Kriemhild, brought to Worms.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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And as for that ring yonder which you have on your finger, and which you got as your "morning-gift"; its name is Andvari's-spoil, and _that_
Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856
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