单词 | flapperdom |
释义 | > as lemmasˈflapperdom ˈflapperdom n. (a) = flapperhood n.; (b) flappers collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being sweet seventeen1791 young ladyhood1843 young-womanhood1852 young ladyship1856 young ladyishness1867 damselhood1880 flapperhood1905 flapperdom1907 flapperism1909 1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip i. vi. 157 She was in the last stages of what slangy young men call ‘flapperdom’, and her hair was gathered on the nape of her neck with a big black bow. 1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip ii. vii. 216 The flapper going so far as to ask her two admirers for a quotation of odds—in the current coin of flapperdom, chocolates. 1922 M. Sadleir Excurs. in Victorian Bibliogr. 5 Brought up on Jane Austen, Scott, and Dickens, I read, during my years of flapperdom, Marryat, Trollope, and Wilkie Collins. < as lemmas |
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