mariage de convenance
Britishnoun
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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
I'm only a half sort of lover, meditating a mariage de convenance to oblige an uncle, and by no means required by the terms of my agreement to undergo a very rigid amount of drill.
From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony
"It would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.
From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
While in Martinique, Jerome Bonaparte said to a former resident of Baltimore, "Ah! il me faut une mariage de convenance."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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
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