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eternal triangles

eternal triangles is the plural of eternal triangle.

Meaning of eternal triangle

Noun

eternal triangle (plural eternal triangles)

  1. (idiomatic) A relationship involving three persons (usually two women and one man or two men and one woman) among whom there are conflicting and competing attachments of a romantic or emotional nature.
    • "There weren't even any words," she said. "He knocked Loerke down and stunned him, he half strangled me, then he went away." To herself she was saying: "A pretty little sample of the eternal triangle!"1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 31, in Women in Love

Questions about eternal triangles

What is eternal triangles the plural of?
Eternal triangles is the plural of eternal triangle.

Words near eternal triangles in the dictionary

  1. Eternal September
  2. eternal sin
  3. eternal sins
  4. eternal sleep
  5. eternal triangle
  6. eternal triangles
  7. eternalisation
  8. eternalisations
  9. eternalise
  10. eternalised
  11. eternalises

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