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Mesalliance

noun
1.
A marriage with a person of inferior social status.





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"Mesalliance" Quotes from Famous Books



... to contract a mesalliance of this kind, it's nobody's business but his own. Upon my word though, Polly, if you don't take care, this house will get a bad name over the matches that are made in it. You had better have your spare room boarded up, ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... suit. She told me that he was much depressed in consequence of Edna's rejection, and manifested more feeling than she had deemed possible under the circumstances. Of course she is much gratified that her family is saved from the disgrace of such a mesalliance." ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans


Words linked to "Mesalliance" :   misalliance


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