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mé⋅nage

  [mey-nahzh; Fr. mey-nazh]
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–noun, plural -nages  [-nah-zhiz; Fr. -nazh] .
1. a domestic establishment; household.
2. housekeeping.
Also, me⋅nage.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < F ≪ VL *mansiōnāticum. See mansion, -age
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mé·nage   (mā-näzh')   
n.  

  1. People living together as a unit; a household.

  2. The management of a household.


[French, from Old French mesnage, alteration (influenced by maisnie, family) of maneir, to stay, from Latin manēre, to remain; see remain.]
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Word Origin & History

menage  (n.)
1698, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from Fr. ménage, from O.Fr. menage "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 a trois (1891). Earlier in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (1297).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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