menage
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ménage (meɪˈnɑːʒ, French menaʒ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| the persons of a household | |
| [C17: from French, from Vulgar Latin mansiōnāticum (unattested) household; see | |
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Menage
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
menage
1690s, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from Fr. ménage, from O.Fr. manaige "household, family dwelling," from V.L. *mansionaticum "household, that which pertains to a house," from L. mansionem "dwelling" (see mansion). Now generally used in suggestive
borrowed phrase ménage à trois (1891), lit. "household of three." Borrowed earlier as mayngnage, maynage and in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (c.1300).
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Example sentences
It indicates that a menage a trois can work reasonably well.
So the film strains credulity by tossing in every imaginable friendship or fit of jealousy that this menage can hold.
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