Pin-money, personal allowance for the housewife

Formerly agreed upon in marriage contracts (in upper classes; of the higher estates), which the husband paid his wife to cover smaller current expenses, primarily for laundry and clothing, spill from spille = spindle, spinning device. – See bride money, egg money, wife money, child money, milk money, paraphernal money.

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