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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

What brick and mortar idylls, what romances au cinquième, what joyous epithalamiums, what gay improvident ménages, what kisses, what laughter, what tears, what lightly-spoken and lightly-broken vows those old walls could have told of!

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

There are forty similar ménages north of Thirty-third Street and east of Long Acre Square.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny

The system of double ménages, however, decreased as manners became more liberal, and opportunities for social intercourse between the sexes increased.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.

In it two ménages are contrasted, the one run on new and liberal and enlightened lines, the other still dominated by the ideas of the benighted past.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]