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climacteric

 (n): a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

Citation on bib.

9 months ago chained_bear said:

"'...to say nothing of the falling damps, so fatal to those that have passed the climacteric...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 80

11 months ago Minerva said:

Yet I believe you must not expect him to be honest on this side of his grand climacteric.

Anna Howe to Clarissa Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

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