flapperdom
- a word derived from flapper.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
