(n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.
(n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opcapita was also handed a £50m dowry to take over the business.
(2) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(3) The concessions he agreed, and the £9.25m "dowry" paid to the Lebedevs to buy it in the form of guaranteed investment for the next 10 months, are testament to O'Reilly's eagerness to sell.
(4) When the men have paid the dowry and fulfilled the marriage customs they are entitled to have sexual intercourse with their wives.
(5) I wanted to provoke, to make them realise that demanding dowry is no way to respect women.
(6) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(7) Alan Clarke, UK economist at BNP Paribas The odd couple: After an intense five-day engagement, the shotgun wedding between the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats was finally confirmed late last night – albeit with a massive dowry paid up front.
(8) The local branch of humanitarian agency Intersos and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, raised the money to pay back the balance of the dowry – 250,000 ouguiyas (£535) – and applied to a judge for a restraining order against Nafissa’s husband, which was granted.
(9) Though prohibited by law since 1961, dowry is ingrained in Indian culture, she said.
(10) Many poor families in Yemen marry off young daughters to save on the costs of bringing up a child and earn extra money from the dowry given to the girl.
(11) It was owned by Sweden's wealthy Kamprad family, whose patriarch Ingvar founded Ikea , for nearly 20 years, but even their expertise could not revive its fortunes and they paid restructuring firm Hilco a multimillion-pound dowry to take the loss-making business off their hands in December 2009.
(12) However, Koushik Chatterjee, the group executive director of Tata Steel, said the Indian company did not provide a dowry as part of the deal to sell its Scunthorpe steelworks to Greybull , and is selling the rest of the business because it cannot afford the running costs.
(13) The government’s efforts to persuade Indians not to give or accept a dowry – consisting mainly of stodgy sermons – have proved ineffectual.
(14) Recurrent epidemics accounted for 38 per cent of the total mortality experienced by girls enrolled in the Dowry Fund.
(15) If a woman manages to obtain a divorce without her husband's consent, she will lose the sum of money (or dowry) that was agreed to at the time of marriage.
(16) Contrary to the general belief that girls are unwelcome due to the dowry system, in rural areas additional children were desired by a larger proportion of women with 2 sons than of those with 1 son and 1 daughter.
(17) The retailer has been hard hit by the collapse in consumer spending caused by the financial crisis, and French company Kesa paid OpCapita a £50m dowry to take the loss-making chain off its hands just nine months ago.
(18) It is one of two public information videos that take aim at the dowry system.
(19) Epidemics and mortality in 15th and 16th century Florence, Italy, were investigated by use of records of the government-sponsored Dowry Fund.
(20) Based on the real-life story of billionaire Hong Kong shipping tycoon Cecil Chao, who offered a $65m (£40m) dowry to any man who would marry his lesbian daughter, the film is not expected to hit cinemas for several years.
Trousseau
Definition:
(n.) The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients with Trousseau's syndrome experienced frequently recurring concomitant arterial and venous thrombotic events that resulted in sequential amputation and loss of the lower extremities.
(2) The patient described in this report represents the first reported case of Trousseau's syndrome caused by a malignancy arising in a choledochal cyst.
(3) The third period starts with Trousseau's report of 200 cases in the therapy of diphtheria in 1833.
(4) Immunohistochemical studies show that many tumors associated with Trousseau's syndrome express tissue factor on their cell surfaces.
(5) Patients with cancer experience a much higher than expected incidence of thromboembolic disorders, commonly referred as Trousseau syndrome.
(6) Many tumor types commonly associated with Trousseau syndrome, for example lung, pancreatic, breast, colon and gastric carcinomas, stained positively for TF.
(7) On neurological examination, he was rather apprehensive and Trousseau sign was mildly positive.
(8) Five strains of Salmonella typhimurium isolated from faeces of infants hospitalized at Trousseau Hospital in Paris have been found to be resistant to third-generation cephalosporins.
(9) Hypoxia-sensitive hyperexcitability of the axon membrane might be responsible for the generation of pseudomyotonia and Trousseau's phenomenon, although the mechanism underlying myokymia remains unknown.
(10) Myokymia, pseudomyotonia (difficulty relaxing after forceful contraction), and ischemia-induced carpal spasm (Trousseau's phenomenon) were not abolished by nerve block distal to the cuff or by intravenous infusion of calcium.
(11) It will be vile not having you to go shopping with, only we're so poor I shan't have much of a trousseau."
(12) The number of discharging motor units varied, sometimes leading to an electrical Trousseau associated to a carpal spasm.
(13) Heparin, but not warfarin, therapy is effective in preventing the occurrence of devastating thrombotic events in patients with Trousseau's syndrome and the reason(s) for this are still unknown.
(14) We present here a case of gallbladder carcinoma found at laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and discuss the interesting clinical findings associated with this entity, including the preoperative suggestion of Trousseau's syndrome.
(15) Thirty-one toe transfers were available for analysis from the series performed in Trousseau hospital (Paris).
(16) On physical examination, she was thin with positive Trousseau's and Chvostek's signs.
(17) Venous thrombosis in gastric cancer was described by Trousseau in 1865 [55].
(18) Physical and laboratory examinations revealed positive Chvostek and Trousseau's signs, hypocalcemea, mild hyperphosphatemia, normal serum magnesium, prolongation of QTc on EKG, normal reaction to Ellsworth-Howard test and high levels of serum PTH.
(19) An association between venous thrombosis and cancer was first suggested by Armand Trousseau and subsequently confirmed by multiple postmortem studies.
(20) The patient had Trousseau's syndrome (tumor-associated thromboembolism) due to carcinoma of the pancreas.