ménage à trois
[mey-nahzh ah trwah; French mey-nazh a trwah]
- a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household.
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Origin of ménage à trois
< French: household of three
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affair, love, relationship, dalliance, fling, adultery, tryst, liaison, passion, flirtation, involvement, courtship, infidelity, devotion, trio, troika, triumvirate, triad, trinity, triplicityménage à trois
- a sexual arrangement involving a married couple and the lover of one of them
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Word Origin for ménage à trois
literally: household of three
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Word Origin and History for menage a trois
1891, see menage.
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