à trois
Americanadjective
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Take Kafka: in his novels and short stories he reveals himself to be obsessed with what, by now, we should see as a three-way stand-off, or ménage à trois, between man, technology and writing.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2010
"One must get out of the humiliating position in which one is placed; one can't live à trois."
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett
There the old chapeau à trois cornes was the badge of the aristocracy: the chapeau rond and the bonnet rouge were sworn brothers in the cause of democracy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
Or was it perhaps only a joke à deux, and not à trois?
From The Rocks of Valpre by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Ethel Rossiter joined her father at the end of the table, and when Mrs. Billing also rose the conversation went on à trois.
From The High Heart by Basil King
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