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Flapper   /flˈæpər/   Listen
Flapper

noun
1.
A young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress.





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"Flapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... Three mails are now due from Holland, so that I have no letter from you to acknowledge; I write to you, therefore, now, as usual, by way of flapper, to put you in mind of yourself. Doctor Swift, in his account of the island of Laputa, describes some philosophers there who were so wrapped up and absorbed in their abstruse speculations, that they would have forgotten all the common and necessary duties of life, if they had not been reminded ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield


Words linked to "Flapper" :   young lady, young woman, girl, missy, miss, fille


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