Brewer's: Agapemone

Agapem′one
(5 syl.).

A somewhat disreputable association of men and women living promiscuously on a common fund, which existed for a time at Charlynch, near Bridgewater, in Somersetshire. (Greek, agape, love.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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