dowage

English

Etymology

From Old French douage, from douer +‎ -age, from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”). By surface analysis, dow +‎ -age.

Noun

dowage (plural dowages)

  1. (obsolete) dower; dowry.
    • 1875, Edward Hungerford Goddard, editor, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: Volumes 15-16‎[1], Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 325:
      Leland, living at the time, is a good authority; and he describes Corsham as “a good uplandish toun, wher be ruines of an old maner place: and therby a park wont to be yn dowage to the Quenes of Englande.

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