flapper

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Now, suddenly, he was handed a microphone and enlisted as a simultaneous translator for Karel Lamač’s uproarious Jazz Age comedy about a proper Viennese girl who goes wild as a flapper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Underneath, dresses of scalloped sequins and draped fringe recall flapper looks with contemporary discipline.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2024

Even in the 1920s, there were high-profile flapper divorces and, everybody's like, oh my God, society is crumbling.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024

The team made two robots: a large flapper robot modeled after a moth to better understand how the wings worked, which they deployed in water.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

I’d been afraid that maybe she had turned into a flapper with spit curls and spike heels and she might not like me.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz