Mesalliance
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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