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mésalliances

mésalliances is the plural of mésalliance.

Meaning of mésalliance

Noun

mésalliance (plural mésalliances)

  1. Marriage with a person of inferior social position.
    • The case is very different in England, where a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance by marrying a painter […]1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “On the French School of Painting”, in The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC

Questions about mésalliances

What is mésalliances the plural of?
Mésalliances is the plural of mésalliance.

Words near mésalliances in the dictionary

  1. méridienne
  2. méridiennes
  3. Mérigon
  4. méringue
  5. mésalliance
  6. mésalliances
  7. méthode champenoise
  8. métier
  9. métiers
  10. métis
  11. Métis French

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