mariage de convenance
Example Sentences
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It was not a mariage de convenance; the young people had chosen freely.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
It was a marriage of the heart, you see, and did not want the trappings with which they gild that bitter pill so often swallowed now-a-days—a "mariage de convenance."
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
The opening chapter is a picture of a lively Parisian ménage, such as many doubtless exist; a striking example of a mariage de convenance, or mis-match.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
"And every one will call it a mariage de convenance!"
From The Swindler and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
