true flapper
- noun
- /tru ˈflæpər/
- Archaic
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flapper auténtica
- In her photos, my grandmother looked every bit the true flapper of the Roaring Twenties.
Examples
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She wore a beaded dress and danced like a true flapper at the party.
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Aspiring to be a true flapper, she cut her hair short and wore bold makeup.
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She is a true flapper who loves jazz music.
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Many true flappers embraced new fashion trends in the 1920s.
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In her photos, my grandmother looked every bit the true flapper of the Roaring Twenties.
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Aspiring to be a true flapper, she cut her hair short and wore bold makeup.
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Many true flappers embraced new fashion trends in the 1920s.
Synonyms
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A young woman in the 1920s who wears short skirts and has bobbed hair
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a genuinely fashionable young woman of the 1920s' is directly derivable from combining 'true' (genuine) with 'flapper' (a 1920s modern young woman); the adjective+noun composition is a basic, productive pattern in English. Given that the learner already knows both constituent meanings, the phrase is immediately comprehensible rather than idiomatic or metaphorical.
Etymology
True flapper comes from the 1920s word flapper, which one popular story says came from young birds that 'flap' their wings because the women seemed lively and free. So a true flapper means 'a genuinely fashionable young woman' who really shows the bold style and free attitude of the Roaring Twenties.