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
Dagwood Bumstead was the scion of a rich family that disowned him when he married Blondie, a flapper — forcing him to take an office job under the irascible J.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
Now, suddenly, he was handed a microphone and enlisted as a simultaneous translator for Karel Lamač’s uproarious Jazz Age comedy about a proper Viennese girl who goes wild as a flapper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Underneath, dresses of scalloped sequins and draped fringe recall flapper looks with contemporary discipline.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
This time, I lingered out by the bar, and then, when the flapper girl grabbed me, I joined her dancing in the mosh pit.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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
The evening started with cocktails and moved to a tent on the museum’s back lawn; many patrons were dressed as flappers to fit the Roaring Twenties theme.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021
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
The machine men tumbled down the stairs, and Leo forced them to jitterbug like 1920s flappers.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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