flapper
/ˈflapə
/noun informal
(In the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behaviour.You then read other letters and you find out he's surrounded by bright young things, flappers....
- The book contains fascinating chapters on young militants, flappers and bohemian aesthetes, and on street life.
- Was Ruth a modern woman, a young flapper, or a traditional housewife and mother?
