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flower people

American  

plural noun

  1. flower children.


Etymology

Origin of flower people

First recorded in 1965–70


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There’s something for dog people, cat people, flower people, art lovers, pop art lovers and this in black, based on a Picasso quote: Everything You Can Imagine is Real, with topsy-turvy letters.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

It’s heavily implied that she turned into one of the sculptural flower people.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2018

It reported, for instance, that 40% of the soldiers guarding the Pentagon during last fall's peace march sympathized with the demonstrators; some, said L.N.S., actually shed their uniforms to join the flower people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Grassroots have blossomed into flower people of a sort.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus one band would consist of frog people only, another of witchetty grub people only, another of Hakea flower people only, and so on.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer

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