dowry
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"So many of my friends have had to leave school, or never been to school because someone paid a dowry to marry them, so their fathers had married them off," she says.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025
His wife, he alleged, had filed "false court cases", accusing him of cruelty, dowry harassment and various other wrongdoings.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024
Budi, 55, sometimes receives 10% of the dowry for driving and interpreting.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 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
My family’s old furniture had been shined up into an impressive dowry and placed in the front parlor.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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