lost generation proper n 🔊

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

☞ Today is the centennial of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, in which Gertrude Stein is credited with the epigraph “You are all a lost generation,” widely recognized as the origin of the term.

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