dowerless
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Adjective[edit]
dowerless (not comparable)
- Lacking a dowry; dowryless.
- Synonym: dowryless
- 1980, Mary Diane McCabe, “Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Cock”, in A critical study of some traditional religious ballads[1], Durham University, page 37:
- A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]
Translations[edit]
dowryless — see dowryless