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ménage
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Definition:1. a household2. [French] a household
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As, of course, all family arrangements fell into the hands of servants, St. Clare found his menage anything but comfortable.
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Some prosperous Frenchman had built the house in the late 1700s to house a ménage of wife, children, and spinster tantes.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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I had heard of old Mrs. Knox of Aussolas; indeed, I had seldom dined out in the neighbourhood without hearing some new story of her and her remarkable ménage, but it had not yet been my privilege to meet her.
Humours of Irish Life: E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross. Trinket's Colt
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