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‖ mésalliance|mezaljɑ̃s, mɪˈsælɪəns|
[Fr., f. més- mis- + alliance alliance. Cf. misalliance.]
A marriage with a person of inferior social position.
1782H. Walpole Let. to Mason 25 June, We are well off when from that mesalliance there spring some bastards called Episodes. 1827Canning Sp. Ho. Com. 12 June in Hansard (1828) XVII. 1255 An account of a union, or rather of what the French called a mésalliance between a man of colour and a white woman. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1869) 39 In England..a grocer's daughter would think she made a mesalliance by marrying a painter. 1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman x, It seems hardly likely that another prince will make a mésalliance for the sake of a Milovitch. |