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Trivia about dowry

  • Endow once meant to provide with one of these, an old marriage custom
  • Historically it was the goods, money or property that a bride brought to her husband at marriage
  • Once, a groom paid a sum to the bride's family & she came with a collection of money & property known as this
  • The bride-price is the opposite of this
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam) In the early 1600s, one tulip bulb could pay for a house or be given by a bride's family as this

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