bridewealth

Variant of bride price

bride price definition

bride price

in some cultures, money and property given to a prospective bride's family by the prospective groom and his family
also bride-price bride′·-price′

noun

or bridewealth bride′·wealth′ (brīd′welt̸h′)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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