mariage de convenance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It won't be like an ordinary marriage, a young married couple and so on, nor a mariage de convenance, either, in the ordinary sense.
From Love's Shadow by Leverson, Ada
Our system is, in fact, gradually becoming a clumsy compromise between the mariage de convenance and the mariage d'amour, with most of the disadvantages, and very few of the advantages, of either.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
It seemed that when he was only twenty-three he had made a mariage de convenance to please his father.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
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
Could I not picture to you the mariage de convenance in America?
From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H
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