Flapperesque
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Flapperesque is an adjective meaning Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
Meaning
Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flapperish, sixtiesish, divaesque, stripperlike, frockish, frocklike.
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