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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[L.]

(Rom. Law)

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

parapherna ‎(uncountable)

(law, historical, Ancient Rome) A woman's property which was not made a part of her marriage dower but remained her own.