Dowry
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A dowry is a payment such as land, property, money, livestock, or a commercial asset that is paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
Aussteuerschrank – a dowry cabinet, currently in a German museum in Hauenstein.
Jadeite Cabbage – Jin received it as part of her dowry for her wedding to Guangxu, in 1889; originally displayed in Forbidden City (Beijing), it is now in National Palace Museum (Taipei City).
The dowry for the three virgins (Gentile da Fabriano, c. 1425, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome), part of the Saint Nicholas legend.
In an 1828 "Wife Wanted" advertisement in Cornwall, England, a man claiming a "great taste for building" pledges to apply a prospective wife's dowry-like £1,000+ to build property that will be "settled on her for life".
Bride price
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Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be marri
Dowry
…that is paid by the bride's (woman's) family to the groom (man) or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom, or his family, to the bride, or her family, dowry is the wealth transferred…
A Papuan bride dowry basket piece from the early 20th century. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.