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词汇 flapper
释义 flapper
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈflæp.ər/ us /ˈflæp.ɚ/
in the 1920s, a fashionable young woman, especially one showing independent behaviour(20世纪20年代行为举止独立的)年轻时髦女子
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Examples from literature

And the flapper, with a sinful pride, had shown him off to the family. 
Fleur was not a flapper, not one of those slangy, ill-bred young females. 
I tried to get advance information, but she blushed and giggled like any other flapper. 
The flapper gives him one long look, then bows her head. 
The young flappers were no doubt better engaged. 

Examples of flapper


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Such comments evoke more familiar anxieties over the 'boyish' flapper or 'masculine' women's fashions.
I believe there is one flapper among them of the age of 18.
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The younger generation of girls to-day are not as keenly concerned with the cinemas as the word "flapper" might induce people to believe.
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People had the vote at 18 in the 1919 election in this country—the flapper election.
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We were told that the flappers wanted votes.
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You have to add to this something like 100 other meetings that are commonly called "flapper" meetings, at which horses are raced.
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I am one of those who opposed the flapper's vote, but.
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The same remark applies to the so-called flapper vote.
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I am all in favour of the "flapper" vote.
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Do "goods" in this particular case include flappers as well?
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I am prepared to see that the flapper has her rights.
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At the last election we heard a good deal of talk about the flapper and the flapper's vote.
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That was an argument against the later proposal for the general franchise, popularly known as the "flapper" vote.
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The question of the storage of cigarettes and chocolates is not going to inconvenience even the smallest flapper in these days.
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We are not talking about the flapper voter earning her cosmetics allowance, but about families in which the woman's wage is a vital contribution to domestic solvency.
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