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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One kind of clue in analysis is a mésalliance — a mismatch.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
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
Seems a puzzling mésalliance on the part of Mssrs.
From Forbes ● Nov. 3, 2014
This was none other than a consideration of Gabriel's engagement to the hotelkeeper's daughter, and an argument with himself as to whether or no he should consent to so obvious a mésalliance.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
It is true, more ambitious hopes had been secretly entertained for Johann Albrecht's daughter, and all the critics could say was that the marriage could not be called a mésalliance in so many words.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
Oh, there are no mésalliances in this house.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
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
This is why mésalliances, as a rule, turn out to be very unhappy marriages.
From Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell
I mean to say, he was coming it pretty thick, since he could not have forgotten that each time I had warned him so he could hasten to save his brother from distressing mésalliances.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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
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