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Definition of Doweries
1. dowery [n] - See also: dowery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doweries
Literary usage of Doweries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rome: Its Churches, Its Charities, and Its Schools by William H. Neligan (1858)
"Care thus taken of the Orphans' doweries, No tourist has traced an itinerary of
the charities of Eome. The Protestant is fully satisfied that every thing in ..."
2. An Epitome of Grecian Antiquities: For the Use of Schools by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1827)
"Sometimes large doweries were brought. Andromache is called by Homer ...
But Lycurgus, in Sparta, and Solon in Athens, prohibited doweries. ..."
3. The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione (1903)
"Wherefore it is reasonable that the prince should set a limit upon the too
sumptuous houses of private folk, upon feasts, upon the excessive doweries of ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"The institute subsists on doweries provided by the choir Sisters, on alms charitably
offered by very many persons petitioning prayers and in thanksgiving ..."
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