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Definition of Ménage à trois
1. Noun. Household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations.
Definition of Ménage à trois
1. Noun. A household or relationship whereby three people live together as lovers. ¹
2. Noun. A sexual act or experience involving three people; a threesome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ménage à Trois
Literary usage of Ménage à trois
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology: Containing as Well a Word on by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... pensioned her off handsomely when she objected to his putting another woman
in her place; and finally set up a menage a trois with Sir William and Lady ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"The prolog sets two men talking about the menage a trois which the wife of one
of them threatens to set up. The argument that a woman may hold a love great ..."
3. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"Some travellers make the ant-house a.menage a trois, and the same tale is told
of the prairie dog villages. It is not, however, a happy family if it be true ..."
4. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"Clotilde, having turned for the moment from her Lafont to a stupid sportsman,
wearies of him, and yearns for her former menage a trois. ..."
5. Contemporary French Dramatists: Studies on the Théâtre Libre, Curel, Brieux by Barrett Harper Clark (1915)
"... a protest against the menage a trois and the marriage laws, L'Engren- age
against political abuses, Les Bienfaiteurs against indiscriminate charity, ..."
6. Three Plays for Puritans by Bernard Shaw (1906)
"ventional disapproval of her discussions of a menage a trois with Judge Brack.
A little experience of popular plays would soon convince these clever ladies ..."