Meanings
noundowage (plural dowages)
plural dowages
- obsoletedower; dowry.
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.
1875, Edward Hungerford Goddard, editor, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: Volumes 15-16, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 325
Origin
- Latindōtō“to endow”
- Old Frenchdouage
- Englishdowage
From Old French douage, from douer + -age, from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”). By surface analysis, dow + -age.
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dowage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dowage
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