agapemone

noun

ag·​a·​pem·​o·​ne

ˌa-gə-ˈpe-mə-(ˌ)nē

plural -s

often capitalized

: a free-love institution

allow Christopher to run an Agapemone in what was after all her own house

—F. M. Ford

Word History

Etymology

from Agapemone, a communistic establishment that was founded about 1849 at Spaxton, England, and had a reputation for immoral behavior, irregular from Greek agapē love + monē stopping place, from menein to remain

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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