mismates

“The brown stocking of the two mismates she had brought along almost matched the pair she was wearing.”

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I

“They were two men who had reached a point of perfect community of tastes and inclinations, though they came together in two widely different starting-places -- though they were so little alike to outward seeming that they were known among their friends as "the mismates.”

Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches