ménage
or me·nage
a domestic establishment; household.
of or relating to a ménage à trois: erotic ménage fiction.
Origin of ménage
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How to use ménage in a sentence
When a neighbor (Suzanne Clement) takes a shine to the family, a strange ménage-a-trois of sorts forms.
Oscar Season Kicks Off in Toronto: Channing Tatum, Kristen Stewart, and More Court Awards Glory | Marlow Stern | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe incident allegedly took place on the night of July 14, when the military men arranged for a ménage à trois with the woman.
U.S. Soldiers, Accused of Rape in Italy, Hope to Go Free in America | Barbie Latza Nadeau | July 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTObviously a ménage à trois can also happen between two men and a woman.
So, in “The Runaways,” Don engages in a half-hearted ménage-a-trois AND outsmarts his frenemies.
Mad Men’s ‘The Runaways’: Three-Way Sex and Self-Mutilation in the Craziest Episode Yet | Marlow Stern | May 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBrooks also has a passion for family life and he lives it out in a remarkable ménage.
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She questioned Madame Vauchelet as to the probable cost of a femme de ménage.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdThe interior ménage of a Mexican hut is naturally primitive.
Mexico | Charles Reginald EnockIrving had now given his brother Peter a place in his little ménage.
Washington Irving | Henry W. BoyntonI looked with admiration upon this resourceful Celestial, and then felt mildly irritated at the completeness of the whole ménage.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines | Florence Kimball RusselThe old names in France are given in the dictionary by ménage.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De Candolle
British Dictionary definitions for ménage
/ (meɪˈnɑːʒ, French menaʒ) /
the persons of a household
Origin of ménage
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