flapper
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Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
“It,” employed in this way, first appeared in a 1927 novella by Elinor Glyn, which became a silent film starring the red-haired flapper Clara Bow, arguably history’s first “It Girl.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Nicks strolled in later, fresh from her stint at Clementine’s and still donning her flapper costume.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
In the hour before Pippi’s party, children scoured the room on a scavenger hunt to find nine Pippis, donning disguises from a Dodgers jersey to a 1920s flapper dress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
“Now he’s got his eye on us. Now we got to be careful and not make no slips. You keep your big flapper shut after this.”
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
To replicate the columnar formations of birds, in which they line up one directly behind the other, the researchers created mechanized flappers that act like birds' wings.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
Lurking behind the era’s glitzy flappers and Wall Street speculators was a collective trauma of both the war and the pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022
Sibling chorus girls go to Paris and live like their mother and aunt who were 1920s flappers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
The joke, in each instance, begins with the words “Hully gee!” supposedly uttered by one of the flappers.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019
When we went in, the room was already crowded—babies, children of all ages, and women of all kinds: nuns, spike-heeled flappers, lame grandmothers, fat mothers and thin ones, brave ones and sniffling ones.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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