bell-bottoms
Britishplural noun
Other Word Forms
- bell-bottomed adjective
Example Sentences
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Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent yellow bell-bottoms, Mary Serritella was defying gravity and expectations on a recent Wednesday night at Hollywood’s Bourbon Room.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024
She held public office continuously since she was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969, the days of bell-bottoms and love beads.
From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2023
In 1972, a year of disco, hip-hugging bell-bottoms, 36-cents-a-gallon gas and Joe Biden’s first Senate election, Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
For the longest time it looked as if the gatekeeping Boomers were embarrassed by the 1970s and all that it encompassed – Nixon, disco, the energy crisis, Punk, the fall of Saigon, bell-bottoms.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
She lay in it in her yellow Crimplene bell-bottoms with her hair in a ribbon and her Made-in-England go-go bag that she loved.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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