dotal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdəʊtəl/
Adjective
dotal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting or comprised in dower.
- 1717, Samuel Garth, Metamorphoses:
- Shall I, of one poor dotal town poſſeſt,
My people thin, my wretched country waſte
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References
dotal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French
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Further reading
- “dotal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
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Spanish
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Further reading
- “dotal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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