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middle-ageing, ppl. a.
Also middle-aging.
Becoming middle aged.
1882Howells in Longm. Mag. I. 53 Only a score of middle-aging veterans remained. 1916E. Pound Lustra 104 With middle-ageing care I had laid out just the right books. 1956D. M. Davin Sullen Bell ii. iv. 130 The job was getting him. If not the job..his own middle-ageing self. 1969D. Lambert Angels in Snow v. 74 A successful middle-ageing woman. 1973Publishers' Weekly 8 Jan. 62/1 They get acquainted with a pair of middle-aging Jewish bachelor doctors. |