Dowries is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 202 anagrams from letters in dowries (deiorsw).
1250-1300; Middle English dowerie Anglo-French douarie Medieval Latin dōtārium. See dot2, -ary
The bridegroom is nevertheless obliged to pay the dowry demanded.
Once the dowry has been cashed, there is no financial reason to keep the wife around.
To the husband, the wife tenders no dowry; but the husband, to the wife.
Accept them for a dowry; and allow me to claim one privilege in return.
The woman is a commodity to make money—the dowry becomes a business transaction.
The dowry left to me by my father was ample enough for the dowry of a nun.
In 1836 he married Angele Sicardot, who brought him a dowry of ten thousand francs.
The full document is quoted in a new book by Avi Raz, The Bride and the dowry, complete with the typing errors I then made.
The groom has to give the bride a dowry to make the contract valid, and that dowry is for her and her alone to use as she wishes.
Girls are seen as a burden, as the family must pay a dowry to the men they eventually marry.