mariage de convenance

British  

/ marjaʒ də kɔ̃vənɑ̃s /

noun

1. another term for marriage of convenience

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Example Sentences

While in Martinique, Jerome Bonaparte said to a former resident of Baltimore, "Ah! il me faut une mariage de convenance."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

The system is worse than the dot and mariage de convenance.

From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert

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

She said she preferred a mariage de convenance to a love match, because it generally turned out better.

From Our Village by Mitford, Mary Russell

With them it very seldom began with love, or even with direct personal choice, but was in most instances entirely a mariage de convenance and arranged for them as such.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)