menage
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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
Some prosperous Frenchman had built the house in the late 1700s to house a menage of wife, children, and spinster tantes.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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 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
On reflection, as bizarre as the Macmillan ménage was, its use as an alibi now appears to me to be weak.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 15, 2013
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
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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
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 Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
There are forty similar ménages north of Thirty-third Street and east of Long Acre Square.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
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