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Dowerless

//ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking a dowry; dowryless. not-comparable

    "A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking a dowry wordnet

Etymology

From dower + -less.

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