mariage de convenance

British  

/ marjaʒ də kɔ̃vənɑ̃s /

noun

1. another term for marriage of convenience

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Example Sentences

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

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

Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.

From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Hornblow, Arthur

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. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb

"It would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)