marriage-portion
English
Noun
marriage-portion (plural marriage-portions)
- A dowry, either paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family, or by the groom's family to the bride or her family, at the time of marriage.
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, page 291:
- Minora gained by the visit—a marriage-portion, which made her lover's father as polite to the heiress as he had been cold to the beauty. He had negatived the features which his son had most eloquently pleaded; but he had nothing to say against the pistoles.