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flapper

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++flap·per /ˈflæpə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  FASHIONABLEa fashionable young woman in the late 1920s 20世纪20年代末的〕时髦女郎5  See picture of FLAPPER 时髦女郎
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flapperA flapper had the body of an adolescent boy, not a grown-up woman.She would pave the way for a much more slender ideal: the flapper.The flapper had to be a good consumer, keeping up with fashion and buying the latest in beauty products.The flapper rebelled not only against Victorian manners and morality but against the body that went with it.
flap·per nounChineseSyllable
in Corpus fashionable young late the a 1920s woman


flapper
flapper /ˈflæpə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
a fashionable young woman in the late 1920s


flap·perBrE /ˈflæpə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈflæpər/ 🔊 nouna fashionable young woman in the 1920s who was interested in modern ideas and was determined to enjoy herself (20 世纪 20 年代不受传统拘束的)新潮女郎