ménage

Meanings

1. A household; a domestic situation.
2. A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments.
3. A group of people in a sexual relationship; especially, such a group that live together; the relationship itself.

Etymology

Borrowed from French ménage; compare Middle English menage, a parallel borrowing from an earlier form of the French word.