menâge

menâge (plural menâges)

1. Obsolete form of ménage.
   • 1838, [Catharine Mary Howard], chapter I, in Reminiscences for my Children, volume III, Carlisle: […] for the Author by Charles Thurnam, page 13:

     They lived together in great harmony, each holding a different department in their menâge, excepting the eldest, who was, par excellence, called the Esquire, and expected to do the honours of the wine;

   • 1843, Frances Elizabeth Davies, “Tableaux Vivants”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XXXVII, London: Saunders and Otley, […]; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; Smith and Son, Glasgow; and Cumming, Dublin, page 61:

     But Laurence was too much revolted by the menâge to retain any longer desire to become acquainted with the master;

   • 1857, “Scrutator” [Knightley William Horlock], The Squire of Beechwood. A True Tale., volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 66:

     […];—in short, with the exception of the Duke of B⸺ and Lord L⸺, Mr. Naylor’s menâge beat all the old country gentlemen off the ground, ostentation and display being everything with Mr. Naylor;

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Recollections by a Quarantine Detenu”, in Mrs. S[amuel] C[arter] Hall [i.e., Anna Maria Hall] (conductor), Sharpe’s London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading, volume I (new series), London: Virtue, Hall, and Virtue, page 6:

     Among the many lazzarettos of the Mediterranean, that of Malta is, with regard to comfort, interior economy, and the civility of its officials, immeasurably superior to any other; and as a slight peep into the menâge of such an establishment may be a novelty to those who “live at home at ease,” I shall place my reader’s eye at the little hole in the showman’s box, and let him judge for himself.