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Flapper

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Flapper meaning

A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially. | A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

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Example sentences (20)

I’d like to know what a home woman, a business woman, a flirt, a flapper, or even a man—or especially a man—thinks about a woman’s most interesting age.

At the height of the flapper era in the 1920s, tobacco companies promoted chain-smoking to suppress appetites.

During the 1920s, Chanel helped pioneer the flapper look.

Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard appears born to play the part of the heroine Songbird, dressed in flapper style, fluent in French chanson stylistics and able to sing American English colloquialisms with deadpan delivery.

Ocean Grove pair Jenny Keep and Matt Flapper excelled at the recent Australian Sides Championships at Club Tweed.

The islands around Scotland are thought to be some of the last remaining strongholds of the flapper skate, with Orkney considered to be an area that is successfully managing to maintain a population.

Audience members came dressed in suits or flapper dresses, and stood drinking in a grand room of a London townhouse, decorated in the style of a 1920s bar.

If somebody needs to fix the flapper, though, your cover is blown and everyone will know you're a sot.

Now that it’s 2020, the roaring 20’s are back with flapper-style gowns trending in San Francisco.

The flapper skate egg was looked after by staff from NatureScot and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Sams), and recently hatched at the Sams aquarium just outside Oban.

Dress for this night of murderous mayhem includes flapper dresses, zoot suits, feather boas and headbands, pinstriped suits and fedoras.

I used to snicker at all the vapers, but now I’m one of them, gripping my shit between my fingers like I’m some flapper smoking from a cigarette holder.

The sideline, the doctor's wife was an anti-prohibition activist and travelling flapper girl in speakeasies from Chicago to Boston.

Alcohol is wrapped in flapper-era glitz as the protagonist downs shot after cocktail of beautiful booze.

Fight cancer with food, fun and flapper dresses at The Gala Goes Gatsby, the new version of this year’s Capital Chefs Showcase.

A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters, including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans (many of whom were women) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl.

During the early sound era, MGM began to place Crawford in more sophisticated roles, rather than continuing to promote her flapper-inspired persona of the silent era.

Meade 177 Although some critics, notably the New York Times reviewer, dismissed her work as " flapper verse", Meade 178 the volume helped cement Parker's reputation for sparkling wit.

The film stars George O'Brien as the introverted Crown Prince Michael, William Powell as his happy-go-lucky brother and Virginia Valli as Michael's flapper love interest Dolores.

Then in the modern day the biblical serpent is replaced by Eve's gossiping neighbor and Eve becomes a sexy flapper and fashion model when Adam is at work.