mesalliance

It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread. "

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread. "

Middlemarch 1871

It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread. "

Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

Instances of such 'mesalliance' would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the

The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Barring her obscure birth, Edna is as worthy of Gordon as any dainty pet of fashion who lounges in Clara Inge's parlors, and I shall take occasion to tell her so if ever she hints at 'mesalliance' in my presence. "

St. Elmo 1872

If she made a mesalliance, the favor would be enormous, only to be granted to vast wealth, or conspicuous services, or very powerful influence.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

M. de Negrepelisse maintained sufficient of the tradition of birth to dread a mesalliance.

Two Poets 2007

M. de Negrepelisse maintained sufficient of the tradition of birth to dread a mesalliance.

Two Poets 2007

An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King

Burlesques 2006

Fred was considered to have made rather a mesalliance by the ladies of his family, whose grandfather had been in a Charity School, and who were allied through the husbands with some of the best blood in

Vanity Fair 2006