autumn romance

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Noun

autumn romance (plural autumn romances)

1. (idiomatic) A romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.
   • 2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77:

     Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.

   • 2010 September 27, Aljean Harmetz, Robert Berkvist, “Gloria Stuart, an Actress Rediscovered Late, Dies at 100”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 November 2016:

     Ms. Stuart and Mr. Ritchie also began an autumn romance that lasted until Mr. Ritchie's death in 1996 at the age of 91.

   • 2015, Pete Winslow, "O god of spring forgive me" in City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.), →ISBN, p. 146 (Google preview):

     It was an autumn romance in the September of my years

     When the hourglass of my life was exactly three-quarters run through

See also

• December bride
• May-September romance
• May-December