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Kin of a morganatic marriage
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mesalliance
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"marriage with a person of lower social position," 1782, from French mésalliance , from pejorative prefix mes- (from Latin mis- ; see mis- ) + alliance (see alliance ).
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a marriage with a person of inferior social status
Usage examples of mesalliance.
Count of Morcerf is too aristocratic to consent, for the paltry sum of two million francs, to a mesalliance.
What they really think and feel can be discovered by reading second-rate novels, where one finds that it is a dreadful thing to be born on the wrong side of the tracks, and that there is as much fuss about a mesalliance as there used to be in a small German Court.