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
All over Paris are to be seen his workshops, savings banks, hospitals and houses of industry and reform, and, in the suburbs, his phalansteries and his model farms.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
I have had some experience of lay phalansteries, of an artistic, not to say a bacchanalian character; and seen more than one association easily formed and yet more easily dispersed.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gentlemen and scholars, generally at the South, would as soon be caught studying or practicing the black art, as in reading Owen or Fourier, or in building phalansteries.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
