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

I shuddered at the idea of a mere mariage de convenance.

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

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

Neither the climate nor "the freezing social convenance" of England pleased Mme.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

"It would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)