"marriage-portion" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "marriage-portion (plural marriage-portions)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 291:",
          "text": "Minora gained by the visit—a marriage-portion, which made her lover's father as polite to the heiress as he had been cold to the beauty. He had negatived the features which his son had most eloquently pleaded; but he had nothing to say against the pistoles.",
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        "A dowry, either paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family, or by the groom's family to the bride or her family, at the time of marriage."
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          "dowry",
          "dowry"
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  "word": "marriage-portion"
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          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 291:",
          "text": "Minora gained by the visit—a marriage-portion, which made her lover's father as polite to the heiress as he had been cold to the beauty. He had negatived the features which his son had most eloquently pleaded; but he had nothing to say against the pistoles.",
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        "A dowry, either paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family, or by the groom's family to the bride or her family, at the time of marriage."
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  "word": "marriage-portion"
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