menage

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No," she continued, with an air of infinite conviction, "it is not good for the menage--the necessity of those explanation You told me he was handsome," said Joan, passing her arm carelessly around Dona Rosita's comfortable waist.

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  1. A household; the company of persons living together in a house. Then she tried keeping house with a female friend; then the double ménage began to quarrel and get into debt. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, lxiv.
  2. Housekeeping; household management.
  3. 3 (me-naj′). A kind of club or friendly society common among the poorer of the working classes of Scotland and the north of England.
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  • He paid me a short formal visit soon after he had accepted the post; we exchanged a few remarks about the situation, I hoped we would faire bon menage, and had no particular impression of him except that he was very French and stiff; I didn't suppose I should see much of him. —  My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
  • We talked a great deal of the menage, and I am to take my chair and have my convert there when I please; and it is (a) stipulation that not a petit pot is to be added on my account. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • And on mature consideration I fancy this menage is not entirely your cup of tea. —  Spinsters in Jeopardy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 17
  • So, let us determine conclusively, here and now -- did GE offer unfettered access to Hayden Panettiere, and did WB hold out until a guaranteed menage was agreed upon starring the cast of —  Dealbreaker
  • The new menage-a-trois is the government and unions, with the taxpayers taking it up the Hershey highway. —  Top stories from Times Online
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  1. from French ménage, Old French mesnage, a household, family, from Middle Latin mansionaticum, a household, from Latin mansio(n-), a dwelling, house: see mansion, and cf. meiny.
 

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