The Collaborative International Dictionary
Middle-age \Mid"dle-age`\, [Middle + age. Cf. Medi[ae]val.] Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; medi[ae]val.
Usage examples of "middle-age".
THE VILLAGE RECTOR I THE SAUVIATS In the lower town of Limoges, at the corner of the rue de la Vieille-Poste and the rue de la Cite might have been seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the middle-ages.
She was Raphaelesque, like an old-fashioned Hollywood blond teetering on the cusp between beauty and slovenly middle-age, glossy curls falling past her shoulders, the milky loaves of her breasts swaying ponderously in gray silk, her motherly buttocks dimpling beneath a tight skirt, her scarlet lips reminding of those gelatin lips full of cherry syrup you buy at Halloween, her eyes tunnels of mascara pricked by glitters.
But the minister went away intent on classifying the soutar by finding out with what sect of the middle-age mystics to place him.
The seeress was bulgy in spots, with a middle-age sag, but she might have been a beauty in her day.
The RATHHAUS, or municipal building, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Middle-Age architecture.
His Internet contact with us, conducted from the safety of his home or some cybercafé, was one thing, but maybe he was having second thoughts when confronted by the reality of two hefty, sweating middle-age men.
Nonetheless, the look somehow made Andrews more cognizant of his own encroaching middle-age.
And finally, in late middle-age, a mellowing, a relaxation of the armor, just enough for the ruling age-group to make alliances and deal successfully with the outer world.
Meanwhile the Thirty Years War had destroyed the prosperity of central Europe and there was a sudden but very general interest in ``alchemy,'' the strange pseudo-science of the middle-ages by which people hoped to turn base metals into gold.
I'm not sure, even at this ripe middle-age, but I have to admit that what I recall of Berlin is not arranged in my memory in any normal, chronological sequence.
Adams and Deming were quite young, and Roverton was now verging upon early middle-age.
The whisky was wearing off and I was myself in a flicker of panic: a middle-aging man lying alone in darkness while life fled by like traffic on the freeway.
This last, a middle-age, upper-middle-class, middlebrow detective, is a prototype for Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple and other female amateur investigators of the golden age of detective fiction.
At every table, couples varying from middle-age -to old sat monochromatically garbed.
Behind this, just climbing to his feet, was a naval Commander, well past middle-age.