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flapperesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From flapper + -esque.

Meanings

1. Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
   • Ms. Haskell also goes over the autobiographical correspondences between Margaret Mitchell and her two creations, Scarlett and Melanie, contrasting the author’s tomboy childhood and flapperesque youth with the ladylike gentility she assumed later in life; her fierce determination to become a writer and her fear of the social backlash the publication of her novel might set off. 2009 April 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie”, in New York Times:

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