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- noun Alternative form of
ménage .
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Examples
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Christmas Day Thaddeus meted out gifts of value so unprecedented to the domestics of what he has come to call his "menagerie" -- the term menage having seemed to him totally inadequate to express the state of affairs in his household -- I must go back to the beginning of last autumn, and narrate a few of the incidents that took place between that period and the season of Peace on Earth and Good-will to Men.
Paste Jewels John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Rourke and her dazzling designer, Bunny Christie, also treat the play as a tenement symphony in which we are reminded that the Morrison menage is only part of the larger picture: we get a Rear Window-like perspective on the whole block in which we see glimpses of all the adjacent lives.
Men Should Weep - review Michael Billington 2010
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I mean, I like bargains and I love menage-a-trois, but a bargain menage just smells like disaster.
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This is called menage a trois of 3 hotheaded mavericks: McLame-Palin-Schmidt.
McCain Camp Scaling Back Ads In Key States, Betting On Pennsylvania 2009
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This is called menage a trois of 3 hotheaded mavericks: McLame-Palin-Schmidt.
Obama Camp To Unleash Tough Response Robocall Blasting McCain's "Sleazy" Campaign 2009
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You can ride well, and I think can sit a horse with any of them; but of the menage, that is to say, the purely ornamental management of a horse, in which they are most carefully instructed, you know nothing.
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Since it involves three, is it what the French call menage-a-trois?
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Bon demain va falloir dire a ma mere que clement vient ca c une autre histoire ... ca va gueuler 'mais j'ai pas fait l'menage' 'yapa assez d'bouffe' bla bla bla bla bla bla ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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It was -- it was not -- not sexually, but it was a kind of menage a trois and very strange relationship in some ways.
Robert Frost: A Life 1999
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This "menage" at Beaulieu oppressed him, and he hated the place.
Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890
chained_bear commented on the word menage
"the exercise of riding and training horses; it also signifies the place set apart for these exercises."
October 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word menage
Ha, this was the name of a range of men's toiletries in Australia.
October 10, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word menage
Did they smell horsey?
October 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word menage
Australian men? Bloody oath.
October 10, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word menage
Also like Bundy?
October 10, 2008