mésalliance
Americannoun
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mésalliances
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of mésalliance
From French, dating back to 1775–85; see origin at mis- 1, alliance
Vocabulary lists containing mesalliance
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The mésalliance here, I’m suspecting, is the mismatch between the intensity of feeling and the referenced event that provoked the feeling.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
One kind of clue in analysis is a mésalliance — a mismatch.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
Seems a puzzling mésalliance on the part of Mssrs.
From Forbes ● Nov. 3, 2014
Lise Barineff, the Russian aristocracy was rather scandalized by the mésalliance.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
"But what a wretched mésalliance is this!" she commented, with covert delight, taking up the note and glancing over its contents.
From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley
Of course, mésalliances appeal to people, because they always suggest marriages for love, and novelists of all countries have worked this theme for all it is worth.
From Rambles in Womanland by Max O'Rell
The punishment for such offence to the most sacred law of Atvatabar, although terrible, was powerless to prevent such mésalliances of souls.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
Oh, there are no mésalliances in this house.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
She has been called an artist in mésalliances, a mismatch-maker of dangerous cunning, a dangler of picturesque beggar-maids before romantic-eyed Cophetuas, a daring promoter of ambitious American girls and a champion of musical comedy peeresses.
From Kimono by John Paris
The fear of mésalliances was ever in his mind, and furiously would he drive away the village pariahs when they came slinking round the house, with lolling tongues.
From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Marmaduke William Pickthall
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