Usage of "marriage portion"

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Money, goods, or estate that is given to a woman at the time of her marriage.

Uso de marriage portion en inglés

That will probably suffice to save your railroad-andMiss Brentwood's marriage portion. 
 The Grafters 

To be sure, your dear life is insured for her marriage portion; but- 
 "My Novel" — Volume 09 

Let him marry another such, and I will not stint her marriage portion. 
 Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy 

I used to think the heart a woman's marriage portion for her husband. 
 The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative 

Beatrice's marriage portion would be a small fortune to a poor young man. 
 Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance 

Is it only that you wish to save Miss Brentwood's little marriage portion? 
 The Grafters 

She would have given you a marriage portion, have found you a husband! 
 His Masterpiece 

And now you want me to take my marriage portion out of your dread. 
 There Are Crimes and Crimes 

But, as it happens, the marriage portion that she brought him has lain untouched. 
 Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) 

I wasn't referring to the girl and her marriage portion. 
 The Market-Place 

Moreover, her family had insisted resolutely on a marriage portion. 
 Atlantida 

A poor man he vas, too, and got ten pun from a marriage portion society. 
 Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People 

Well, no; my wife has it, as part of the marriage portion, or rather my gift. 
 The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life 

Meanly, I added, "Her marriage portion is not large enough." 
 The Oracle Glass 

There is your marriage portion for a reward. 
 The Woman in White 

Thus, seeing that he was almost a king, I did not dare refuse my marriage portion. 
 Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 

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Significados de marriage portion en inglés