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
His wife came twice a week to clean up and set things to rights in the Baxter menage—his two houses.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempThere is a femme de menage who goes with the apartment, and we can rent everything, even the table linen, the Huttons say.
The Four Corners Abroad | Amy Ella BlanchardIt struck him as pitifully appropriate to the Enslee menage that Love should be left out in the cold.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesMenage wrote a book upon the amenities of the civil law, which does anything but fulfil its promise.
The Book-Hunter | John Hill BurtonBut it's only when a menage becomes socially impossible that a sensible man will interfere.
Three Plays by Granville-Barker | Harley Granville-Barker
British Dictionary definitions for ménage
/ (meɪˈnɑːʒ, French menaʒ) /
the persons of a household
Origin of ménage
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