mariage blanc
Example Sentences
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She did move to New York and live in a mariage blanc with a young gay man.
From The Guardian
By then, De Wolfe was Lady Mendl, thanks to a mariage blanc in 1926 to an obscure but accommodating British diplomat that surprised the hitherto-lesbian tastemaker’s friends.
From Architectural Digest
And from the frank, intimate detail of their correspondence, it's clear that theirs was an extraordinary relationship, and very far from a "mariage blanc".
From The Guardian
Here the danger is irremovable from the physical essentia of the marriage itself, and in such a case, no matter how high the personal qualities of the man who may, for instance, have been infected by accident in the course of his duty as a doctor, even childless marriage other than the mariage blanc must be, at any rate, postponed until the disease has been cured.
From Project Gutenberg
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