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ménage_à_trois
ménage à trois
See also: menage a trois
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Noun
ménage à trois (plural ménages à trois)
- A household or relationship whereby three people live together as lovers.
- 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann 2000, p. 105:
- Old men frequently marry young girls, but then the portion is high and the ménage à trois common.
- 2001, Sheila Isenberg, A Hero of Our Own, p. 134:
- For a while, he lived in a ménage à trois with the poet Paul Eluard and his wife, Gala Diakonova (who would later marry Salvador Dali).
- 2006, Gene Lees, Portrait of Johnny, p. 56:
- I'm not a prude and I wasn't a prude then, but I couldn't see living in a ménage à trois unless the third member were a girl.
- 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann 2000, p. 105:
- A sexual act or experience involving three people; a threesome.
- 1996, Cyrinda Foxe, in McNeil & McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, p. 134:
- David and Angela and I had a ménage à trois for about five minutes, but then I made her leave because David and I were gonna play.
- 1999, John Cloud, ‘Henry & Mary & Janet &...’, Time, 15 Nov 1999:
- No, the two guys don't go for each other; the triad tried a ménage à trois once but stopped because Chris thought it was icky.
- 1996, Cyrinda Foxe, in McNeil & McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, p. 134:
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Borrowing from French ménage à trois (“household of three”).
Noun
ménage à trois f or m (in variation) (plural ménages à trois)
- threesome (a sexual activity involving three people)