mariage de convenance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"It would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.
From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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."
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
I can't bear to think of any one so lovely doing anything so sordid, so miserable, as making a mariage de convenance.'
From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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
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
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