mariage de convenance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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If this be regarded as a veritable mariage de convenance, it should suit you admirably and the general as well.”
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
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? — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The opening chapter is a picture of a lively Parisian ménage, such as many doubtless exist; a striking example of a mariage de convenance, or mis-match.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
The system is worse than the dot and mariage de convenance.
From The Web of Life by Robert Herrick
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 William Makepeace Thackeray
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