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flower child

flow·er child (plural flow·er chil·dren)


noun 
Definition:
 
young 1960s-1970s peace activist: a young person in the 1960s and 1970s who rejected materialism and war, especially the Vietnam War, and preached universal peace and love as the solution to the world's problems ( informal )

[< their custom of wearing or carrying flowers as a symbol of peace]
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