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单词 ménage
释义 mé·nage
\(ˈ)mā|näzh, -nȧzh\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French ménage, from Old French mesnage dwelling house, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin mansionaticum, from Latin mansion-, mansio habitation, dwelling — more at mansion
1.
 a. : a domestic establishment : household
  < a respectable ménage — F.A.Swinnerton >
  < an unstable ménage — Harry Levin >
  < add one or two concubines to his ménage — John Blofeld >
 b. : a place in which a person keeps house or that is managed like a household : quarters
  < lunch with the young men at their mess — as all communal ménages appear to be called in the East — Evelyn Waugh >
  < apartment, an eight-room ménage on the fourteenth floor — E.J.Kahn >
  < very formal, and very well kept, whereas I had expected find myself in an entirely Bohemian ménage — George Copeland >
 c. : domestic management : housekeeping
  < accommodates our democratic ménage to the taste of the richest and most extravagant plebeian among us — W.D.Howells >
2.
 a. : a savings club organized in some Scottish and English communities so that each member pays in a set sum each week and the total sum is paid to a different member each week
 b. dialect Britain : the selling of goods (as cloth) on installments often by an itinerant vendor
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