menage à trois

Definitions

1. A household or relationship whereby three people live together as lovers.
2. Alternative spelling of ménage à trois.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A sexual act or experience involving three people; a threesome.

Equivalents

5 more languages

Italianosesso a tre

Nederlandsdriehoeksrelatieménage à trois

Polskiménage à trois

Portuguêsménage à troissexo a três

Русскийшве́дская семья́

Examples

“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!”

“For a while, he lived in a ménage à trois with the poet Paul Eluard and his wife, Gala Diakonova (who would later marry⟳ Salvador Dali).”

“I'm not a prude and I wasn't a prude then, but I couldn't see⟳ living in a ménage à trois unless the third member were a girl.”

“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.”

“In the 60s she lived with her agent and partner, Bryan Southcombe, and their friend, the model⟳ Randall Laurence; there were rumours of a menage a trois, but she always denied it.”

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