convenance

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

In the meantime he felt that Joan's marriage de convenance was a comfortable arrangement for all parties concerned.

From Salthaven by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Our system is, in fact, gradually becoming a clumsy compromise between the mariage de convenance and the mariage d'amour, with most of the disadvantages, and very few of the advantages, of either.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun

It seemed that when he was only twenty-three he had made a mariage de convenance to please his father.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

Lady Betty was the widow of a rich gentleman, to whom she had been married but a few years, when death ended what could not have ever been more than a mariage de convenance.

From Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days by Emma Marshall

She has the politeness of a French countess, with exquisite knowledge of the world and of les convenances, joined to that freedom of opinion which marks the present times.

From Leonora by Maria Edgeworth

From a demure little nun she had in a few moments blossomed forth into a piquante little girl, who seemed quite ready to set the convenances at naught as long as she enjoyed herself.

From The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux

The girls secure their window and pelt their black-bearded Professor in the street below without dread of a scolding on the "convenances."

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene

Practically, fashion and les convenances were her gods.

From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge

"Really, Carl, even spring doesn't quite let me forget the convenances are home waiting."

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis