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
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
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
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
There are forty similar ménages north of Thirty-third Street and east of Long Acre Square.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
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
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
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
