quadragenarian

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But delectable Diane isn't the only quadragenarian actress who fills our Twinkie.

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  • But delectable Diane isn't the only quadragenarian actress who fills our Twinkie. —  Attuworld.com
  • FIRMIANI, a respectable quadragenarian who in 1813 married the lady who afterwards became Mme. Octave de Camps. —  Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
  • Now when a woman decides to love a man for what she can get out of him it is better to take a sexagenarian Excellency than a quadragenarian secretary; there's more profit and less annoyance. —  Bureaucracy
  • Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal-porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor. —  The Wrong Box
 

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