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‖ aˈmober, -br, -byr
Also amabyr.
[Welsh amobr (-byr, -ber); f. am(bi + wobr, gwobr a reward, fee.]
Technical term in the Welsh Laws for the ‘maiden-fee’ formerly payable to a lord on the marriage of a maid of his manor.
1727Chambers Cycl. s.v. Chevage, Coke observes there is still a kind of Chevage subsisting in Wales called Amobyr, paid to the prince of Wales for the marriage of daughters. |