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mariage de convenance
noun as in marriage of convenience
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Nevertheless, since she married—as girls in France do—not to please herself, but her parents, she made a mariage de convenance.
Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.
This mariage de convenance brought no happiness to the parties concerned, and ended in completely crushing the unloved wife.
It was a mariage de convenance—there'd been no wooing, no winning.
There had been no suggestion in their many tte--ttes that they were about to embark upon a mariage de convenance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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