mariage de convenance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He was making a mariage de convenance, but there had been another man on the lists, a younger man than himself, and that had added a most pleasing zest to the pursuit.
From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
It was a mariage de convenance, and, as is sometimes the case with such marriages, it turned out very inconveniently for both parties to it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
Lady Betty was the widow of a rich gentleman, to whom she had been married but a few years, when death ended what could not have ever been more than a mariage de convenance.
From Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days by Marshall, Emma
What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
I ask some one whom I can love; love better than all the world,—not the /mariage de convenance/, not the /mariage de raison/, but the /mariage d'amour/.
From What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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