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==English==
===Etymology===
From {{suffix|en|dower|less}}.
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs/}}
===Adjective===
{{en-adj|-}}
# Lacking a [[dowry]]; [[dowryless]].
#: {{syn|en|dowryless}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1980|chapter=Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Cock|title=A critical study of some traditional religious ballads|author=Mary Diane McCabe|publisher=w:Durham University|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7804/1/7804_4801.PDF?DDD11+UkUDh:CyT|page=37|passage=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 {{...}}}}
====Translations====
{{trans-see|dowryless}}
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