mésalliance
noun
a marriage with someone who is considered socially inferior; misalliance.
mésalliances
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pluralof mésalliance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
This is why mésalliances, as a rule, turn out to be very unhappy marriages.
From Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell
