Dot = Dowry in Louisana English according to http://wikidiff.com/dowry/dot

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> What does the word 'dot' -- in quotes in the original -- refer to?
>
> DDD
>
> https://archive.org/details/jstor-25119224 ; or
> http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3263/
>
> "Rich American girls do buy titles, but they did not invent that idea; it
> had been worn threadbare several hundred centuries before America was
> discovered. European girls still exploit it as briskly as ever; and, when a
> title is not to be had for the money in hand, they buy the husband without
> it. They must put up the "dot," or there is no trade. The commercialization
> of brides is substantially universal, except in America. It exists with us,
> to some little extent, but in no degree approaching a custom."
>