dowry

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The film also tackles the social evil that is dowry - the practice of the bride's family gifting cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

Their helpline number, he says, receives about 86,000 calls every year and most cases are about matrimonial disputes that include false dowry cases and attempts at extortion.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024

The man paid a dowry of about $850, and after the agent and the officiant took their cuts, she was left with about half that.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

His offer — a $2,000 dowry, of which she could keep $1,300, plus about $500 a month — was too good to pass up.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

This is crucial, because in the late fifteenth century the cost of a dowry is rapidly inflating: the size of a respectable dowry is growing wildly each year.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day