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éԳ
[ mey-zuh-lahy-uhns, mey-zal-ee-uhns; French mey-zal-yahns ]
noun
- a marriage with someone who is considered socially inferior; misalliance.
éԳ
/ mezaljɑ̃s; mɛˈzælɪəns /
noun
- marriage with a person of lower social status
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of éԳ1
Example Sentences
One kind of clue in analysis is a éԳ — a mismatch.
The éԳ here, I’m suspecting, is the mismatch between the intensity of feeling and the referenced event that provoked the feeling.
In the second, having argued that modern young women possessed the independence of mind to seek out entertainments on their own, she wrote, “Modern girls are conscious of the importance of their own identity, and they marry whom they choose, satisfied to satisfy themselves. They are not so keenly aware, as were their parents, of the vast difference between a brilliant match and a éԳ.”
Seems a puzzling éԳ on the part of Mssrs.
Mr. Golan, who died last month at the age of 85, and Mr. Globus, cousins who founded the Cannon Group, a B-film powerhouse of the 1980s, released cinematic sex romps like “Bolero” with Bo Derek, bloody vigilante sequels with Charles Bronson, and the occasional éԳ with respected filmmakers like John Cassavetes and Jean-Luc Godard.
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