Definition of "phalanstery" An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier , with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks . quotations examples
Quotations [S ]he seemed to him a revelation of a class , and a multitude of socialistic figures , of names and episodes that he had heard of , grouped themselves behind her . She looked as if she had spent her life on platforms , in audiences , in conventions , in phalansteries in séances ; in her faded face there was a kind of reflection of ugly lecture -lamps ; with its habit of an upward angle , it seemed turned toward a public speaker , with an effort of respiration in the thick air in which social reforms are usually discussed .
1886, Henry James, The Bostonians, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co.