phalanstery
noun
(in Fourierism)
phalansteries
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pluralof phalanstery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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You can't look without dread at the photos and engravings of panopticons, meeting houses, commune buildings, phalansteries and other social-idealist architecture in the 19th century stretch of this show.
From Time Magazine Archive
With their socialist communities, workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the hotels at Nice, phalansteries of the most polite and hypocritical worldly corruption, he had been flattered in the seclusion of his room by unexpected visits.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas
Fourier with his phalansteries is quite forgotten, his place being taken by Marx.
From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov
As to considerations of economy, which are sometimes laid stress on in favour of phalansteries, they are those of a petty tradesman.
From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
