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ex-fiancé

noun
ex-fi·an·cé | \¦eks-ˌfē-ˌän-ˈsā, -fē-ˈän-ˌsā\
plural ex-fiancés

Definition of ex-fiancé 

: a man whom one was formerly engaged to but never married : a former fiancé

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1887, in the meaning defined above

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