autumn romance

plural autumn romances

1. idiomaticA romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.

   Ms. Stuart and Mr. Ritchie also began an autumn romance that lasted until Mr. Ritchie's death in 1996 at the age of 91.

   2010 September 27, Aljean Harmetz, Robert Berkvist, “Gloria Stuart, an Actress Rediscovered Late, Dies at 100”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Nov 2016

   2 more examples

   Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.

   2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77

   It was an autumn romance in the September of my years When the hourglass of my life was exactly three-quarters run through

   2015, Pete Winslow, "O god of spring forgive me" in City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ed.), p. 146 (Google preview)