mariage de convenance
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Mine is, if you like, a mariage de convenance, in the sense that Gerald is a poor man and cannot marry unless he marries money.
From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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
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
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
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