📚 noun • entry_id 49322
bride price
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In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.
It is well known in Artas as in other villages exactly what the bride price should customarily be—so much for a cousin bride, so much more for a village bride, more still for a str…
Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner o…
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