ménage
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Etymology
Origin of ménage
First recorded on 1250–1300; Middle English, from French, ultimately from unattested Vulgar Latin mansiōnāticum; see mansion, -age
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Conversations With Friends asks whether it is possible to sustain authentic connections to people in the presence of flawed, overarching structures: capitalism, patriarchy, a devilish ménage à quatre.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
As the magnetic and impulsive Catherine, Moreau is the force at the center of Truffaut’s celebrated New Wave classic and the focal point of its Bohemian ménage a trois tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2017
Marston lived for most of his adult life in a ménage with three women: his wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston; a librarian named Marjorie Wilkes Huntley; and Olive Byrne, who was Sanger’s niece.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2015
So exalted was Lauren Bacall’s affair and subsequent ménage with Humphrey Bogart, it threatened at times to overshadow her acting career, as well as her other passions: for politics, literature and, yes, material possessions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2015
It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Meanwhile, the Colette-Willys — bohemian, avant-garde and in and out of complex ménages — took Paris by storm.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
People will be drawn together into little groups of similar ménages having much in common.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
There are forty similar ménages north of Thirty-third Street and east of Long Acre Square.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
Unlike most literary ménages, M. and Madame Daudet are one of those happy couples who are said by cynics to be the exceptions which prove the rule.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
As in the ostrich family, it is the male that has the entire care of the family from the moment the eggs are laid—a fairer division of labor than we see in most ménages.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
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