old flame

old flame
A previous girlfriend or boyfriend; a former romantic partner, especially one for whom one still has romantic feelings.

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.


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