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  • noun Plural form of phalanstery.

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Examples

  • About the year 1840 there were some thirty of these "phalansteries" in

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • About the year 1840 there were some thirty of these "phalansteries" in

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • "phalansteries" in France, in Algeria, Brazil, and in the United States.

    Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877

  • As all the old fortunes are diminishing in France, the majestic mansions of our ancestors are constantly being demolished and replaced by species of phalansteries, in which the peers of July occupy the third floor above some newly enriched empirics on the lower floors.

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

  • As all the old fortunes are diminishing in France, the majestic mansions of our ancestors are constantly being demolished and replaced by species of phalansteries, in which the peers of July occupy the third floor above some newly enriched empirics on the lower floors.

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

  • At one time there were over forty phalansteries in this country, and if one groups together the Owenite communities and the religious movements of various sorts, there were at least one hundred and seventy-eight actual Utopian groups with from fifteen to nine hundred members each.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • At one time there were over forty phalansteries in this country, and if one groups together the Owenite communities and the religious movements of various sorts, there were at least one hundred and seventy-eight actual Utopian groups with from fifteen to nine hundred members each.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Let us establish the rest as near their old homes as we can, -- not in poor-houses or phalansteries, but on their own farms.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • Now, as to your phalansteries and women's clubs and sitz-baths, why that's all flummery to me.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

  • All over Paris are to be seen his workshops, savings banks, hospitals and houses of industry and reform, and, in the suburbs, his phalansteries and his model farms.

    Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

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