flappers

A nickname given to young women in the 1920s who defied convention by refusing to use corsets, cutting their hair short, and wearing short skirts, as well as by behavior such as drinking and smoking in public. ( See Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties .)

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Also a hit: flappers, thanks to the success of Chicago at the Oscars that year.

And she waved him behind her, beckoned to the crowd to keep wide way, used her lifted hands as flappers; she had all her wits.

Whereupon of course the Hind stopped in her civil way to ask after her and her little Flappers.

As a matter of fact many Flappers grew up into excellent and patriotic women.

See his big, ugly head, an' the arms o' him like the flappers o' a win'mill!

We stood at the window watching the flappers opposite play hockey.

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