menage

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

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

Marston lived for most of his adult life in a ménage with three women: his wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston; a librarian named Marjorie Wilkes Huntley; and Olive Byrne, who was Sanger’s niece.

From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2015

So exalted was Lauren Bacall’s affair and subsequent ménage with Humphrey Bogart, it threatened at times to overshadow her acting career, as well as her other passions: for politics, literature and, yes, material possessions.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2015

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

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

From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train

Placed as they were, with such infinitely more possibilities of happiness than nine ménages out of ten—though leaving out unfortunately one, and that the most important part—love—it was terrible that they should quarrel.

From Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson

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