à trois

[a trwah]

adjective

French.

1. for, among, or composed of three persons collectively (usually used following the word it modifies).

   a secret shared à trois.

Example Sentences

“He beat me, held me captive and wanted me to be in ménages à trois,” Silva later told People magazine.

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The story continues at a motel, where Zendaya, playing a tennis prodigy, begins a ménage à trois with two guys; it fizzles after they become more interested in each other.

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While it might seem like the relationship between Fox News and the former president is definitionally codependent—an inescapable chokehold of paranoid delusion that brings out the worst in each party—I would submit that it is actually more of a ménage à trois.

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In one of the disputes that led to Crosby leaving the Byrds, the band recorded his taboo-testing song about a ménage a trois — “Why can’t we go on as three?” it asked — but refused to include it on “The Notorious Byrd Brothers,” an album that marked the Byrds’ turn toward country-rock.

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So Férida went to Hollywood in 1940, and on her way met a married couple she began a ménage à trois with.

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