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What is an old flame?

What is an old flame? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A previous girlfriend or boyfriend; a former romantic partner, especially one for whom one still has romantic feelings.
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An old flame revisits the hill village and his one encounter with her tells him that it is a hope betrayed.
Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the days beyond recall.
Then my old flame moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The film, which features local acting talent, was shot in Temple Hill in 2003, and is about a poor single mum who bumps into an old flame.
Dishevelled and tearful, her self-esteem has just taken a beating as she has watched an old flame she thought she could reconnect with put the make on someone else.
When Darwin's book The Origin of Species was published in 1859, his brother Erasmus sent a copy to his old flame Harriet Martineau.

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