The skeleton is about four feet long: the fore-paws are short, strong, and webbed; almost in the same proportions as a mole's; the hinder extremities are flappers, like the seal's.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
Whereupon he replied, smiling: "That's nothing, merely a beginning for flappers and afternoon-tea souls like you.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
But the truth is, my faculties seem to hang heavily now, like flappers when the spring is broken.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon