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
But that too is a German perspective: Britons have rarely gone for continental things such as existentialism, still less a cosmopolitan transcontinental menage.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
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
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
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Haslam, W. E.
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 Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
