"portion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For marriage portions to poor girls of said parish, 30,000 dollars.
- Will you take the princess and her dominions with my love thrown in as a marriage portion?
- Maud had a marriage portion, Tetbury from her father's estate.
- Some women left home to live on their own because of crowding at home; or to save for future marriage portions.
- Nine years later in September 1672, Charles made her another present of £2,150 as a marriage portion.
- Anne brought with her a marriage portion of £10,000 and estates in Glamorganshire.
- But the women were heads of families; they came about land disputes, or taxes, or marriage portions.
- She received from her father a marriage portion of 4000 marks.
- The idea was that the proper way of providing for a woman was by giving her a marriage portion.
- He also promised to provide them with marriage portions and to marry them to "gentlemen born".
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