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Meaning of flapperesque | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s).

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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