Citations:flapper


 * 1905, The Walsall Advertiser The "Flapper."
 * And one may well ask where the "flapper" will next appear, and what will be the effect of her presence everywhere?
 * 1908, The Times
 * A 'flapper', we may explain, is a young lady who has not yet been promoted to long frocks and the wearing of her hair 'up'.
 * 1908, Guyra Argus Caesar and Cleopatra: Jocular, elaborate and tedious.
 * We all hate the name of Julius Caesar, not because he was at all difficult to translate, but because he was so dull a writer. Anybody who starts out to make fun of the fellow has our sympathy. But Mr. Shaw, sad to relate, muddles the chance. Instead of showing us Caesar in the field, tying his battalions in knots or marching along under one of those preposterous "pent-houses," he simply gives us a talkative old gentleman fooling around with a "flapper." He may call the "flapper" Cleopatra, but that will not save the play.
 * 1910, Western Mail Vanity's Visions: Charming costume for the Riviera
 * A "flapper" can wear a turn-down collar with success, because it is essentially "girlish"; but, then, a "flapper" is not expected to be smart; and my whole contention is that this revival of the embroidered muslin collar is not one to be encouraged by most women.
 * 1914, The Times The Old Boy: Box B.731
 * The father of a young lady, aged 15 – a typical “FLAPPER” – with all the self assurance of a woman of 30 would be grateful for the recommendation of a seminary (not a convent) where she might be placed for a year or two with the object of taming her. It is not EDUCATION she requires, she has too much of that already.
 * 1934, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan chapter 16 by James T. Farrell
 * Stud's eyes roved. Plenty of girls, most of them young flappers, Loretta's age. Only a couple of years ago they were kids.