convenance
/kon-vuh-nahns; French kawnvuh-nahns/US // ˈkɒn vəˌnɑns; French kɔ̃vəˈnɑ̃s //UK // French (kɔ̃vnɑ̃s) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural con·ve·nanc·es [kon-vuh-nahn-siz; French kawnvuh-nahns]. /ˈkɒn vəˌnɑn sɪz; French kɔ̃vəˈnɑ̃s/.
- : suitability; expediency; propriety.
- : convenances, the social proprieties or conventionalities.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Nevertheless, since she married—as girls in France do—not to please herself, but her parents, she made a mariage de convenance.
He was thinking of this marriage de convenance he must make, of this bride he must one day take home to England.
Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.
This mariage de convenance brought no happiness to the parties concerned, and ended in completely crushing the unloved wife.
It was a mariage de convenance—there'd been no wooing, no winning.
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