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
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
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
What tilts the delicate balance of this domestic ménage is Ben’s determination to win Sarah, who is engaged to Ted, for himself.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
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
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
Unlike most literary ménages, M. and Madame Daudet are one of those happy couples who are said by cynics to be the exceptions which prove the rule.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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
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
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
