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

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

But it was really a mariage d'amour, not merely de convenance.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)

Think you there would be no more marriages de convenance if we were to give the benefit of our experience to the world?

From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Some may not be all mariages de convenance that you choose to call such.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida