flower child

noun

: a hippie who advocates love, beauty, and peace

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Pearly Shadow Shimmery, pearly lids are in the flower child starter kit (along with long wavy hair, micro braids, and a flower crown). Loren Savini, Allure, 10 Sep. 2024 To be fair, there is a certain pathos to Wenders’s portrait of a superfluous 21st-century man, a flower child who has lived long enough to see the glorious music of his youth become analog keepsakes. Hazlitt, 15 May 2024 The two-story space is colorfully but neatly organized with artwork and stacks of pillows that come together to create a flower child’s utopia. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024 The Bay Area was the epicenter of the country’s social upheaval—the previous year’s Summer of Love, which had drawn thousands of flower children to the Haight-Ashbury district, was already a memory. Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for flower child 

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of flower child was in 1967

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“Flower child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flower%20child. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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