ménageの英語

語源

Borrowed from French ménage; compare 中期英語 menage, a parallel borrowing from an earlier form of the French word.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɛˈnɑːʒ/, /meɪˈnɑːʒ/
• 韻: -ɑːʒ

名詞

ménage (plural ménages)

1. A household; a domestic situation. [from 17th c.]
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 167:

     "Oh," cried her ladyship, "I see the whole ménage; they will take a first floor over a baker's shop, to save fire, and live upon red herrings during the week, with a mutton chop by way of meat on a Sunday."

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 39:

     It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage.

2. (now Scotland) A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments. [from 19th c.]

   Hypernym: ROSCA

3. A group of people in a sexual relationship; especially, such a group that live together; the relationship itself. [from 20th c.]

   Hyponyms: ménage à trois, ménage à quatre, ménage à moi

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アナグラム

• Meegan, manege, manège