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menage

[may-nahzh, may-nazh] / meɪˈnɑʒ, meɪˈnaʒ /


ménage




NOUN
household
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Sent, that was, of course, as a Warhol fan, long before he had had his 15 minutes of fame as part of the Warhol menage.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2014

The Brit in me knows, without a shadow of a doubt, that that's where I'd live if I were part of the Downton menage.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2013

Harvey's musical language proved equally adaptable to the dark, charged intensity of the Wagnerian menage, and the bright realm of the Buddhist myth.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

But the insurers collude with the hospitals and the physician groups and that menage a trois means one thing.

From Forbes ● Aug. 22, 2011

The spring came slowly, the new menage settled down, and Elaine arranged a tournament for her cavalier.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Conversations With Friends asks whether it is possible to sustain authentic connections to people in the presence of flawed, overarching structures: capitalism, patriarchy, a devilish ménage à quatre.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017

As the magnetic and impulsive Catherine, Moreau is the force at the center of Truffaut’s celebrated New Wave classic and the focal point of its Bohemian ménage a trois tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2017

The Delle Rose ménage is here presented semi-abstractly, without walls and with its jumble of furniture sinking into the sand of the Louisiana Gulf Coast town where the play takes place.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2016

The large family is a thing of the past, generally speaking, which is why such a ménage fascinates me: siblings competing for attention, being rancorous and rivalrous.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016

It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

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

As in the ostrich family, it is the male that has the entire care of the family from the moment the eggs are laid—a fairer division of labor than we see in most ménages.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

This will cause some tribulation in the small ménages, where the cheap, popular, and handy gas-stove has replaced the coal or charcoal ovens and ranges.

From Paris War Days Diary of an American by Charles Inman Barnard

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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions




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