lost generation

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Etymology

Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.

Proper noun

the lost generation

  1. The generation that came of age during World War I.
  2. A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.

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