manège

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See also: manege, Manege, and manége

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French manège; cognate with French manier and English manage.

Noun[edit]

manège (countable and uncountable, plural manèges)

  1. The art of training and riding horses; dressage.
  2. A riding school.
  3. (UK) A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall).
  4. The movements of a trained horse.

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manège (third-person singular simple present manèges, present participle manèging, simple past and past participle manèged)

  1. (transitive) To train (a horse).

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian maneggio, deverbal of maneggiare (cognate with French manier).

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  • IPA(key): /ma.nɛʒ/
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Noun[edit]

manège m (plural manèges)

  1. the art of training and riding horses
  2. riding school
    • 1921, Marcel Proust, chapter 2, in Sodome et Gomorrhe [Sodom and Gomorrah] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎[1]:
      Quelquefois j'en voyais telle ou telle arrêtée sur la plage, sans agrément et que pourtant bien des coïncidences semblaient certifier être la même que j'avais été désespéré de ne pouvoir approcher au moment où elle sortait avec ses amies du manège ou de l'école de gymnastique.
      Sometimes I saw some girl resting upon the beach, devoid of charm, and yet apparently identified by various features as one whom I had been in despair at not being able to approach at the moment when she emerged with her friends from the riding school or gymnasium.
  3. (unroofed) riding arena, riding hall
  4. circus
    • 1927, Marcel Proust, chapter 4, in Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎[2]:
      Qui n'a vu un vieux maître de manège cardiaque faire toutes les acrobaties auxquelles on n'aurait pu croire que son coeur résisterait une minute?
      We have all seen an old circus performer with a weak heart accomplish acrobatic tricks which no one would believe his heart could stand.
  5. fairground attraction, amusement park ride
    • 2021, Six Flags La Ronde, "Tous les manèges":
      Des plus hauts sommets aux aventures plus clémentes, nous avons une foule de manèges que vous pourrez apprécier ensemble.
      From the highest peaks to gentler adventures, we have a host of rides to enjoy together.
  6. (specifically) merry-go-round, carousel
  7. (figuratively) (little) game, ploy, stratagem, goings-on
    Synonym: jeu
    • 1864, Rudolf Charles, Preface to Testament by Jean Meslier, page 14
      Tous ces manèges, bien qu'impuissants pour nous tuer, nous faisaient des torts immenses...
      All these games, although powerless to kill us, were doing us immense harm…
    • 1920–1921, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in Le Côté de Guermantes [The Guermantes Way] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎[3]:
      Mais après trois jours, pour que le concierge ne pût se rendre compte de mon manège, je m'en allai beaucoup plus loin, jusqu'à un point quelconque du parcours habituel de la duchesse.
      But after the third day, so that the porter should not discover my stratagem, I betook myself much farther afield, to some point upon the Duchess's usual route.

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