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bride price

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bride price
n.

bride price, wealth
n
(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
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Noun1.bride price - money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride
gift - something acquired without compensation


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This view is confirmed by Pinar Ilkkaracan, cofounder of Women for Women's Human Rights in Istanbul, who observes that sexual conditions of Turkish women under Islam include honor killing, bride price, and arranged marriages, all practices that could be at least mitigated by more widespread education.
He fulfills a heavy bride price for the desirable Night Bird Woman.
Hungry for gold for a bride price, or to buy thralls to tend their unyielding farmsteads, Norse raiders are extending their depredations beyond the nearby Danes.
 
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