flapperesque

English

Etymology

From flapper +‎ -esque.

Adjective

flapperesque (comparative more flapperesque, superlative most flapperesque)

  1. Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).
    • 2009 April 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 January 2026:
      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.
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