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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
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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 17 Sep. 2024.
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