menage
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We had better find out because we’re going to be hearing that a lot in the next few months, as our menage with the EU comes to a bitter end.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2017
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
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
The Delle Rose ménage is here presented semi-abstractly, without walls and with its jumble of furniture sinking into the sand of the Louisiana Gulf Coast town where the play takes place.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
