mésalliance
Americannoun
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
Example Sentences
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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
Let the case be reversed, and a man of fortune permit himself the caprice of marrying a portionless girl, and society cries out in horror against the mésalliance.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
All the family were interviewed, your young man among the rest, and the comic papers said the mésalliance appeared to be on the coachman's side.
From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Poor, Agnes Blake
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