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Webster 1913 Edition
Mesalliance
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Méˊsalˊliˊance′
,Noun.
[F.]
A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.
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mésalliance
mésalliance
English
Noun
mésalliance (plural mésalliances)
- Marriage with a person of inferior social position.
- Aylmer and Louise Maude translation of Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace:
- But if you marry the old count you will make his last days happy, and as widow of the Grand...the prince would no longer be making a mésalliance by marrying you.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 37
- It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mésalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.
- William Makepeace Thackeray:
- In England, a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance by marrying a painter!
- Mohun Dampier, "Beyond the Walls", Ambrose Bierce:
- To a mésalliance of that kind every globule of my ancestral blood spoke in opposition.
- Aylmer and Louise Maude translation of Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace:
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From mésalli(er) + -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.za.ljɑ̃s/
Noun
mésalliance f (plural mésalliances)