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mesalliance

mesalliance is the alternative form 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

Forms of mesalliance

pluralmesalliances

Questions about mesalliance

What is mesalliance the alternative form of?
Mesalliance is the alternative form of mésalliance.

Words near mesalliance in the dictionary

  1. mesalamine
  2. mesalazine
  3. mesale
  4. mesales
  5. mesalike
  6. mesalliance
  7. mesalliances
  8. mesally
  9. mesanepisterna
  10. mesanepisternal
  11. mesanepisternum

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