mariage de convenance

/ marjaʒ də kɔ̃vənɑ̃s /

noun

1. another term for marriage of convenience

Example Sentences

"A mariage de convenance," Sturling remarked with a smile, as he saw me inspecting the labels.

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Much of this corruption evidently arises from the iniquitous practice of mariage de convenance, so often speculated in by most match-making mothers, in the two greatest capitals of Europe. 

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For I contemplate a mariage de convenance—and I scarcely care whom I marry as long as he removes from me this terror of a sordid and needy future.

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There had been no suggestion in their many t�te-�-t�tes that they were about to embark upon a mariage de convenance.

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It was a marriage of the heart, you see, and did not want the trappings with which they gild that bitter pill so often swallowed now-a-days—a "mariage de convenance."

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