middle youth
Britishnoun
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Accordingly, Morrissey has unexpectedly dissented from the "middle youth" nostalgia circuit that all pop music has now devolved into.
From The Guardian
Nearly all the graduates of the United-States Military Academy who achieved distinction were in what might be termed their middle youth; a few were in their twenties; none were old.
From Project Gutenberg
Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe.
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