troilism

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troilism

(ˈtrɔɪlɪzəm)

sexual activity involving three people

[C20: perhaps from French trois three (compare ménage à trois) + -l-, as in dualism]

ˈtroilist adj

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Translations

troilism

n, no pl (form) → Troilismus m

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Jeremy confessed to Samuel that his milk-maid 'nieces,' who had so impressed him with their femininity and knowledge, were neither cheesemakers nor any relation to the gardener: they were apparently troilists. Henderson proved to be a 'shameless imposter' who had not even 'planted a single blade of grass and Mamzel [one of the girls] has not made a single cheese.'

Prince Potemkin and the Benthams: Simon Sebag Montefiore describes an unlikely project to create an English village in Belorussia involving Catherine the Great's lover and the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and his brother