Mesalliance

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of mésalliance. alt-of, alternative

    "It was to save Bunson, it appeared, from a fatal mesalliance that he had taken the boots, which he described as a cast-off pair of Bunson's landlady, an aged lady who had given them to Bunson as a love gift."

  2. 2
    a marriage with a person of inferior social status wordnet

Example

More examples

"It was to save Bunson, it appeared, from a fatal mesalliance that he had taken the boots, which he described as a cast-off pair of Bunson's landlady, an aged lady who had given them to Bunson as a love gift."

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