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

Thomas Venning, an expert with the auction house Christie's, said the document offered an insight into the "most famous artistic menage in history".

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 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

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

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

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

One story has it that Jonah Thompson built the rear or twin house for his eldest son so that the two families might be together but with separate ménages.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

The system of double ménages, however, decreased as manners became more liberal, and opportunities for social intercourse between the sexes increased.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson