ménage

or me·nage

[ mey-nahzh; French mey-nazh ]

noun

, plural mé·nages [mey-, nah, -zhiz, mey-, nazh].

1. a domestic establishment; household.
2. housekeeping.

adjective

1. of or relating to a ménage à trois:

   erotic ménage fiction.

ménage

/ menaʒ; meɪˈnɑːʒ /

noun

1. the persons of a household

Word History and Origins

Origin of ménage¹

First recorded on 1250–1300; Middle English, from French, ultimately from unattested Vulgar Latin mansiōnāticum; mansion, -age

Word History and Origins

Origin of ménage¹

C17: from French, from Vulgar Latin mansiōnāticum (unattested) household; see mansion

Example Sentences

His wife came twice a week to clean up and set things to rights in the Baxter menage—his two houses.

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There is a femme de menage who goes with the apartment, and we can rent everything, even the table linen, the Huttons say.

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It struck him as pitifully appropriate to the Enslee menage that Love should be left out in the cold.

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Menage wrote a book upon the amenities of the civil law, which does anything but fulfil its promise.

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But it's only when a menage becomes socially impossible that a sensible man will interfere.

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