convenance

Example Sentences

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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

Lady Betty was the widow of a rich gentleman, to whom she had been married but a few years, when death ended what could not have ever been more than a mariage de convenance.

From Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days by Marshall, Emma

Our system is, in fact, gradually becoming a clumsy compromise between the mariage de convenance and the mariage d'amour, with most of the disadvantages, and very few of the advantages, of either.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

He had given her to understand that a marriage de convenance quite met with his approval, that in his day girls married to please their parents.

From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker

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