flappers

Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Earlier this month, the Flappers stage is bathed in festive Christmas lights and the night’s vibe, unlike the class the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Two weeks after Ray’s Leno in “Pam & Tommy” debuted, Ray was part of a show with Leno at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, California.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2022

Blake Edwards, owner of the Flappers and Gentlemen salon, said they had put plans in place to reopen, including limiting numbers, asking customers to wear masks and putting staff in PPE.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2020

Flappers, sailors, actors, Wobblies, writers heading for fame and bohemians heading for nowhere ate and drank in its windowless rooms.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2017

If the Flappers excite our disgust, their subsequent treatment moves our commiseration, since the Sumptuary and Disciplinary Laws passed by the House of Ladies dealt in drastic fashion with the offences which I have described.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 by Various