massage à trois
n.— «“That’s my way of giving thanks,” said masseuse Mitch Goldstein while giving massages to two people at a time. “Massage a trois,” he called it.» —“Turkey on the Table, Jam on the Freeways” by Louise Roug, Daniel Yi Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when people disagreed over the best word to use when answering the phone. Alexander Graham Bell suggested answering with ahoy! but Thomas Edison was partial to hello! A fascinating new book about...
How colors got their names, and a strange way to write. The terms blue and orange arrived in English via French, so why didn’t we also adapt the French for black and white? • Not every example of writing goes in one direction across the page...