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Dot is Miss Fisher’s maid, a devout Catholic whose domesticity, diffidence, and beige-toned cardigans offer a foil to Miss Fisher’s bejeweled and feathered flapperdom.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2020

She was in the last stages of what slangy young men call "flapperdom," and her hair was gathered on the nape of her neck with a big black bow.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian

What is it makes these young Englishmen always abandon full-blown maturity for flapperdom?

From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)

The ladies especially were jubilant, the flapper going so far as to ask her two admirers for a quotation of odds—in the current coin of flapperdom, chocolates—against Rustleford's chances of an innings victory.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian