noun, masculine/me.naʒ/plural: ménages
ménage is masculine in French.
housework, housekeeping; household
“les ménages les moins aisés” — the least well-off households
Inherited from Middle French mesnage, from Old French manage, mainage, from manoir, maneir, maindre, from Latin manēre. The Old French forms maisnage, mesnage were influenced by the word maisnée, maisnede, from Vulgar Latin *mā(n)siōnāta (French maisonnée), from Latin mānsiō (which also became French maison).