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- adjective Without a
dowry .
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Examples
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Yet another story has it that three dowryless maidens hung their stocking to dry by the chimney.
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Yet another story has it that three dowryless maidens hung their stocking to dry by the chimney.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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Her brother knew her dowryless, and wished her a little of joy and a decent marriage, and there at home, working hard in house and kitchen, and known for a penniless niece, suitors there were none.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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This new wave of hope swept aside the fact that she was the "greenhorn" janitress, that she was twenty-two and dowryless, and, according to the traditions of her people, condemned to be shelved aside as an unmated thing – a creature of pity and ridicule.
Hungry Hearts 1920
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