Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A phalanstery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A phalanstery.

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Examples

  • "So I am to have the infliction of the phalanstere," murmured Rodolphe, suffering himself to be led away from the wearer of the white hat, who, indeed, phalanstered him to the utmost.

    Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841

  • But to you, to the man who has to work for his living, to the man who thinks it would be so much more pleasant to live at his ease in a phalanstere than to work eight or ten hours a day; to the man of talent and action and industry, whose future is invested in that tranquillity and order of a State in which talent and action and industry are a certain capital, -- why,

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But to you, to the man who has to work for his living, to the man who thinks it would be so much more pleasant to live at his ease in a phalanstere than to work eight or ten hours a day; to the man of talent and action and industry, whose future is invested in that tranquillity and order of a State in which talent and action and industry are a certain capital, -- why, Messrs. Coutts, the great bankers, had better encourage a theory to upset the system of banking!

    My Novel — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, "substituted in place thereof Monsieur Fourier's symmetrical phalanstere, or Mr. Owen's architectural parallelogram.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, "substituted in place thereof M. Fourier's symmetrical phalanstere, or

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, "substituted in place thereof M. Fourier's symmetrical phalanstere, or M.. Owen's architectural parallelogram.

    My Novel — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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