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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
At the time, white flower children were running away from their parents’ conventions and expectations, dressing in rags and wandering the streets of San Francisco.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
Channel your inner flower child at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2023
The Fleetwood Mac that most people know was composed of three Brits and two flower children.
—Jerry Portwood, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
Meanwhile, Janice’s groovy flower child mentality extends to devoted practices of yoga, astral projection and dream-sharing, as well as a potent allergy to dishonesty.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 10 May 2023
Their lively band of ghost roomies, who are visible only to Sam following a near-death experience, include an affable Scout leader who took an arrow to the neck, a flower child who got mauled by a bear and a prohibition-era jazz singer who met her moonshine match (read: death by poison).
—Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined above
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“Flower child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flower%20child. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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