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ménage à trois

or menage a trois

[ mey-nahzh ah trwah; French mey-nazh a trwah ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural mé·na·ges à trois [mey-, nah, -zhiz ah , trwah].

a domestic arrangement in which three people, usually a heterosexual couple and one other person, are engaged in a sexual or romantic relationship and occupy the same household.
threesome ( def 4 ).

ménage à trois

/ menaʒ a trwɑ /

First recorded in 1860–65; from French: “household of three”

literally: household of three

The incident allegedly took place on the night of July 14, when the military men arranged for a ménage à trois with the woman.

Obviously a ménage à trois can also happen between two men and a woman.

Ménage à Trois Three years into their marriage, Vadim and Jane began inviting other people into their bedroom.

A Russian friend of Brossard testified that she took part in a ménage à trois with the couple—Stern had them dress as schoolgirls.

"We are certainly going to be happy—we three—in this innocent ménage à trois," she said.

Anne d'Autriche, too, left Compiègne practically a prisoner; another ménage à trois had been broken up.

It speaks well for Henri's tactfulness that for a time at least this ménage à trois appears to have been quite amiably conducted.

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