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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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
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
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
This is why mésalliances, as a rule, turn out to be very unhappy marriages.
From Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell
