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an old flame

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an old flame
a person who you had a romantic relationship with in the past. I bumped into an old flame of yours in Oxford on Saturday.
See also: flame, old

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There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason.
 
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