: a domestic establishment : household
also
: housekeeping
Examples of ménage in a Sentence
getting the whole unruly ménage ready for an outing takes quite a while
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His lies violated my right to determine my own bodily and emotional limits, the right to say no to his menage.
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By the way, my menage à cinq quickly became à trois and ended à me alone.
—Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 25 Oct. 2017
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Alison Kinney, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2018
By the way, my menage à cinq quickly became à trois and ended à me alone.
—Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 25 Oct. 2017
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“Ménage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m%C3%A9nage. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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ménage
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mé·nage
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