ménage
noun
a domestic establishment; household.
ménages
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pluralof ménage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the Colette-Willys — bohemian, avant-garde and in and out of complex ménages — took Paris by storm.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
People will be drawn together into little groups of similar ménages having much in common.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
One story has it that Jonah Thompson built the rear or twin house for his eldest son so that the two families might be together but with separate ménages.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore
So far from being “Music wedded to immortal Verse,” these instances resemble those ménages wherein each unit leads a separate existence.
From Style in Singing by W. E. Haslam
Placed as they were, with such infinitely more possibilities of happiness than nine ménages out of ten—though leaving out unfortunately one, and that the most important part—love—it was terrible that they should quarrel.
From Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson
