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French triangle

French triangle noun: a love triangle; a ménage à trois.

Noun

French triangle (plural French triangles)

  1. A love triangle; a ménage à trois.
    • It is another play of the “French triangle” type, but sordid in incident and unrelieved by gleams of wit or humour.1897, The Theatre, p. 299, 1 May
    • You have brought us all this way to show us a French triangle.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 205

Forms of French triangle

pluralFrench triangles

Questions about French triangle

What does French triangle mean?
French triangle means a love triangle; a ménage à trois.
What part of speech is French triangle?
French triangle is a noun.
What is the plural of French triangle?
The plural of French triangle is French triangles.

Words near French triangle in the dictionary

  1. French tips
  2. french toast
  3. french toasts
  4. French toasty
  5. French Togoland
  6. French triangle
  7. French triangles
  8. French tuck
  9. French turban
  10. French turbans
  11. French turpentine

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