à trois
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Anne d'Autriche, too, left Compiègne practically a prisoner; another ménage à trois had been broken up.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
Vne mère s'est veuë, n'ayant que ses deux mamelles, mais sans suc et sans laict, qui toutefois estoit l'vnique chose qu'elle eust peu presenter à trois ou quatre enfans qui pleuroient y estans attachez.
From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Parkman, Francis
I am ready to comply with his wishes; but I sternly refuse to teach la valse à trois temps.
From John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced by O'Rell, Max
Rather to Ann's surprise he consented, and, in spite of his assertion, earlier on, that he "preferred his own company," he seemed thoroughly to enjoy the little home-like dîner à trois.
From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret
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