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nounmesalliance (plural mesalliances)
plural mesalliances
- alternativeAlternative form of mésalliance.
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.
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 111
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mesalliance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesalliance
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