French triangle

noun

A love triangle; a ménage à trois.

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Meanings

nounFrench triangle (plural French triangles)

plural French triangles

  1. A love triangle; a ménage à trois.

    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
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    It is another play of the “French triangle” type, but sordid in incident and unrelieved by gleams of wit or humour.

    1897 May 1, The Theatre, page 299

    The new French triangle—you might as well get used to it because you are going to see a lot of it—is husband, wife, and car.

    1963, Orient, volume 5, page 74
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