FLAPPER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Flapper

"Flapper" Quotes from Famous Books

... rain;* [The latter is, however, of little consequence in the dry climate of Tibet.] from the same material are made the gauze shades for the eyes used in crossing snowy passes. The bushy tail forms the well-known "chowry" or fly-flapper of the plains of India; the bones and dung serve for fuel. The female drops one calf in April; and the young yaks are very full of gambols, tearing up and down the steep grassy and rocky slopes: their ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... passed in, conscious of an agreeable tingling all down her spine. The hall-porter, a brawny, one-armed ex-Irregular, who had lost what he was wont to term his "flapper" at the outset of hostilities, was too deeply absorbed in spelling out a paragraph of the "Social Jottings" column to salute her. Inside you heard little beyond the crackling of the flimsy sheet, mingled with the comments, exclamations, ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... bit tired, and I can use two hands while you can use only one. You oughtn't to use that left flapper of yours ...

— Two Little Women • Carolyn Wells

... ninepence. Occasionally, however, Attwood favored me with a visit, or gave me a drive behind his great cab-horse. He had formed a whole host of friends besides. There was Fips, the barrister; heaven knows what he was doing at Paris; and Gortz, the West Indian, who was there on the same business, and Flapper, a medical student,—all these three I met one night at Flapper's rooms, where Jack was invited, and a great "spread" was ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Flapper" : young lady, fille, miss, missy, young woman, girl