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Swinging Sixties¹

proper noun the Swinging Sixties · swinging sixties

  1. UK, US, plural, plural only An often nostalgic name for the 1960s. [Mary] Quant's happy perpetuation of the mythology is hardly surprising as she was part of the Chelsea Set, a group of creative entrepreneurs consisting mostly of upper-class artists, photographers and writers such as Alexander Plunckett-Green and Nell Dunn, who together with (American) mass media s

swinging sixties²

proper noun the swinging sixties

  1. plural, plural only Alternative letter-case form of Swinging Sixties

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@misc{swinging_sixties_2026,
  title = {swinging sixties},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swinging%20sixties},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}