| 单词 | dowerless |
| 释义 | dowerless (once / 92339 pages) adj WORD FAMILY dower: dowered, dowering, dowerless, dowers, dowery+/dowery: doweries USAGE EXAMPLESIt is, moreover, borne in upon me that the daughter of Rhuddlan will not come dowerless to the son of Dafydd. Morgan, Louisa, Baron Bruno—Or, the Unbelieving Phi...(2012) Fear was among them; fear handed down from generations of dowerless girls who accepted the first proposal lest they might die as old maids. Ruck, Berta, The Disturbing Charm(2011) One of these was the duty incumbent on a dowerless young lady to marry well. Trollope, Frances Eleanor, That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1(2011) adj lacking a dowry Syn unendowed not equipped or provided |
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