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flapper

noun as in arm

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Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.

Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.

This brings us to the flapper, the suffragette, and, finally, that über-American icon: the screen siren.

Fleur was not a flapper, not one of those slangy, ill-bred young females.

The sick man moved a hand, weakly, as though it were the yellow flapper of some wounded amphibian.

The motor chugged slowly up Broadway, nosing for a path about a slowly driven truck; the flapper looked back.

Now in his hot rage he included the flapper in the glare he put upon her unconscious father.

But during pauses in the afternoon's work the island vision became blurred by the singular energies of the flapper.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flapper, such as: branch, rod, wing, bender, biceps, and bough.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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