dowry

IPA: dˈaʊri

Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
(less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
(obsolete) Dower.
A natural gift or talent.

Examples of "dowry" in Sentences

Such gifts, called a dowry, are common in the Near East today.
The women of our country have to face daily patriarchal violence and there are many so-called dowry deaths each year.
Professor Veena Oldenburg powerfully challenges even the usual portrayal of women being killed for dowry, which is linked with Hindu culture.
The girl was too old, – every day of twenty years, – but three hundred rubles in dowry, with board after marriage, not to mention handsome presents to the bridegroom, easily offset the bride's age.
Jenny shot back, realizing immediately that her being upset by visions conjured up by the word dowry had made that come out sounding as if she somehow considered it an insult to have it implied she was Egyptian.
With President Pratibha Patil giving assent to the newly revamped and amended CrPC (Amendment) Act 2008, and once the amended law comes into force, Section 498A (popularly known as dowry law) would be rendered a toothless penal provision as errant husbands and in-laws would no longer face immediate arrests shunting them to jail.
I think Miss Anville the loveliest of her sex; and, were I a marrying man, she, of all the women I have seen, I would fix upon for a wife: but I believe that not even the philosophy of your Lordship would recommend me to a connection of that sort, with a girl of obscure birth, whose only dowry is her beauty, and who is evidently in a state of dependency.