Meaning of mésalliance | Babel Free

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Marriage with a person of inferior social position.

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Examples

“The case is very different in England, where a grocer's daughter would think⟳ she made a mésalliance by marrying a painter […]”

“He had been revolving in his mind⟳ the marriage question⟳ pending between Jos and Rebecca, and was not over well pleased that a member of a family into which he, George Osborne, of the —th, was going to marry⟳, should make⟳ a mésalliance with a little nobody–a little upstart governess.”

“But this is too sanguine a belief. Instances of such mésalliance would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the Red Indians.”

“It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have⟳ been disinherited because she made what they called a mésalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.”

“To a mésalliance of that kind every globule of my ancestral blood spoke in opposition.”

“But if you marry⟳ the old count⟳ you will make⟳ his last⟳ days happy, and as widow of the Grand...the prince would no longer be making a mésalliance by marrying you.”

“It was to save⟳ Bunson, it appeared, from a fatal mesalliance that he had taken the boots, which he described as a cast-off pair of Bunson's landlady, an aged lady who had given them to Bunson as a love⟳ gift.”

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