ménage à trois
noun/ˌmeɪnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/UK/ˌmeɪnɑːʒ ɑː ˈt(ɹ)wɑː/US
Etymology
Borrowed from French ménage à trois (literally “household of three”).
- borrowed from ménage à trois
Definitions
A household or relationship whereby three people live together as lovers.
- Old men frequently marry young girls, but then the portion is high and the ménage à trois common.
- "We are certainly going to be happy—we three—in this innocent ménage à trois," she said. "I don't know what more you two men could ask for—or I, either—or the children or Eileen.
- […]if she frowned—and there could be no doubt that she was frowning now—what lay before him, before them? A scamped and mean ménage à trois, existence eked out with the aid of Mrs. Knyvett’s scanty resources, and soured by her laments!
A sexual act or experience involving three people
A sexual act or experience involving three people; a threesome.
- David and Angela and I had a ménage à trois for about five minutes, but then I made her leave because David and I were gonna play.
- No, the two guys don't go for each other; the triad tried a ménage à trois once but stopped because Chris thought it was icky.
The neighborhood
- neighboreternal triangle
- neighborlove triangle
- neighborthrouple
- neighborménageboth senses
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ménage à trois. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA