convenance

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It is equally obvious to anyone who knows Philip that he is not the type to submit meekly to the dictates of a dynastic manage de convenance.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a Frenchman, I know it scarcely becomes me to throw the first stone at my neighbour for this: France is admittedly a country where mariages de convenance are common.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack

She would not be the first—not by millions—who had stifled the cherished yearnings of a heart, and strained its tenderest chords, to submit to a marriage de convenance!

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.

From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Hornblow, Arthur

It seemed that when he was only twenty-three he had made a mariage de convenance to please his father.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie