bell-bottoms
Britishplural noun
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She held public office continuously since she was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969, the days of bell-bottoms and love beads.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Their hip-hugging bell-bottoms are dimly remembered embarrassments, like the ERA.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
“I’m going to miss her. ... I am scared right now, as I hang up my bell-bottoms and say goodbye to ‘Halloween.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
For the longest time it looked as if the gatekeeping Boomers were embarrassed by the 1970s and all that it encompassed – Nixon, disco, the energy crisis, Punk, the fall of Saigon, bell-bottoms.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022
She lay in it in her yellow Crimplene bell-bottoms with her hair in a ribbon and her Made-in-England go-go bag that she loved.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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