| 单词 | portion money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasportion money portion money n. now chiefly historical money making up a portion (esp. in sense 1d). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry moryeveOE marriagea1325 dowing1382 dowerc1386 dowrya1400 marriage money1454 marriage good1478 tocher1496 dote1509 jointurea1513 portion1513 endowry1523 tocher-good1538 dowagea1552 marriage dowrya1616 wedding-dowera1616 marriage portion1616 portion money1625 fortune1702 dot1822 1625 W. Boswell Let. 3 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 195 Her portion money..is already paying here. 1710 Quakers Art of Courtship x. 126 It was..the Opinion of a certain Friend, that Womens Portion-money used to be drawn over a Gridiron, and so Nineteen parts of Twenty dropped through, and never came into the Husband's Purse. 1901 Times 19 Jan. 14/3 It appeared that the amount of the portion money due to Mr. Frederick Cavendish on his attaining his majority was not £15,000 but £14,500. 1995 A. L. Erickson Women & Property Early Mod. Eng. 121 Both the rise of portions and the fall in the ratio of portion to jointure, at differential rates, can be partly explained by the use to which portion money was put at different social levels. < as lemmas |
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