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mesalliance (iou)



mesalliance noun. L18.
[French, from mes- MIS-1 2 + alliance ALLIANCE. Cf. MISALLIANCE.]
A marriage with a person thought to be of inferior social position; an unsuitable union.
Q. Bell When..Julia's relations did make a really disastrous mesalliance the young couple were firmly..removed to the colonies.