dowerless
adj/ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs/
Etymology From dower + -less.
1
Lacking a dowry; dowryless.
- A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]1980, Mary Diane McCabe, “Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Cock”, in A critical study of some traditional religious ballads, Durham University, page 37:
- Derived terms
- dowerlessness