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
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
Emil Reich has called Hedda Gabler the tragedy of mésalliance.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
Fastolf bought him back again to avoid such a mésalliance; but the costs of each transfer, and something more, came out of the hapless ward’s estate.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
Oh, there are no mésalliances in this house.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
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
Crimes, divorces, elopements, mésalliances, gossip of all kinds, furnish the papers with three-quarters of their contents.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
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
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
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