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

Much of this corruption evidently arises from the iniquitous practice of mariage de convenance, so often speculated in by most match-making mothers, in the two greatest capitals of Europe. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb

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

Scarcely any of these things are called into requisition during the courtship, and this is how mariages de convenance often turn out better than love-matches.

From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max

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

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