dower是什么意思？

dower

英['daʊə] 美['daʊə]

• n. 嫁妆，天赋，从亡夫处得来的用以维持生活的财产；
• vt. 给以用以维持生活的财产，给以嫁妆；

例句

• Let her beauty be her wedding dower, for me and my possessions she esteems not. 就让她的美貌当她的嫁妆吧; 因为她瞧不起我和我的财产.
• The dower of the woman is very much. 那个妇女的嫁妆很多.
• She was drinking all day by the dower. 她用从亡夫处得来的产业整天喝酒.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  2. a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
• Verb
  1. furnish with an endowment;
  "When she got married, she got dowered"