bride price
Noun
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Noun
bride price (plural bride prices)
- A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures.
- 1937, Grace Crowfoot, "Custom and Folk Tale in Palestine. The Dowry or Bride Price," Folklore, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 31:
- It is well known in Artas as in other villages exactly what the bride price should customarily be—so much for a cousin bride, so much more for a village bride, more still for a stranger.
- 2018, Lucy Moore, "Founding Mothers", Literary Review, November 2018:
- Their fares across the Atlantic were paid on the understanding that when they married, their Virginian husbands would pay a bride price for them of 150 pounds of tobacco, then worth about £22 (perhaps seven years’ salary for a domestic maid).
- 1937, Grace Crowfoot, "Custom and Folk Tale in Palestine. The Dowry or Bride Price," Folklore, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 31:
- bride gift, bride-gift, bridegift
- bride token
- bride wealth, bride-wealth, bridewealth
- reverse dowry
- French: prix de la fiancée
- German: Brautpreis
- Italian: prezzo della sposa
- Portuguese: dote, preço de noiva
- Russian: ве́но
- Spanish: excrex
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