Also amabyr. [Welsh amobr (-byr, -ber); f. am(bi + wobr, gwobr a reward, fee.] Technical term in the Welsh Laws for the ‘maiden-fee’ formerly payable to a lord on the marriage of a maid of his manor.
1727. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Chevage, Coke observes there is still a kind of Chevage subsisting in Wales called Amobyr, paid to the prince of Wales for the marriage of daughters.
