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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mesalliance

"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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mesalliance

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.