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n. - A marriage with a person of inferior social status.

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  • Instances of such 'mesalliance' would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the
  • An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King
  • M. de Negrepelisse maintained sufficient of the tradition of birth to dread a mesalliance.
  • It seems that the sisters could not forgive the mesalliance, as they deemed it, for Lady Langdale's will shows no bequest to the Bacons.
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