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convenance
noun as in decorum
noun as in form
noun as in formality
Strong matches
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.
He was thinking of this marriage de convenance he must make, of this bride he must one day take home to England.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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