| 单词 | bride price |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbride price bride price n. a sum of money or quantity of goods given by the groom or his family to that of the bride.Cf. bride money n. and bride wealth n.Historically, the custom of paying a bride price was a feature of numerous cultures. It continues today in parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and in some South Pacific Island societies. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for bride bride money1829 bride price1863 bride wealth1931 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > bride-price dower1382 dowry?a1505 marriage paymenta1652 bride price1863 mohar1863 lobola1905 bride wealth1931 kiddushin1936 1863 H. O'Neill Fine Arts & Civilization Anc. Ireland 438/2 The tribes of Central Asia still decorate their unmarried women in this way [sc. with strings of little bells], perhaps partly in order that their whereabouts should always be known from the sound, lest they steal away to lovers who come with no bride-price in their hands. 1876 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. (ed. 2) iii. 113 By early Teutonic custom, besides the bride-price, or price paid by the intending husband to the family of the bride, it seems to have been usual for the husband to make gifts of land or chattels to the bride herself. 1963 W. Soyinka Lion & Jewel 7 But I tell you, Lakunle, I must have the full bride-price. 2006 C. N. Adichie Half Yellow Sun (2007) iii. 69 We don't have dowries, we have bride prices. < as lemmas |
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