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An absorbent article having a front part (13; 13'), a rear part (14; 14') and a crotch part (15; 15') which lies therebetween. The article includes an absorbent body (1; 1'; 25) which is enclosed between an outer, liquid-impermeable casing sheet (7; 7'; 26) and an inner, liquid-permeable casing sheet (8; 8'; 27), this latter sheet lying proximal to a wearer's body in use. The article further includes on opposite sides of a longitudinal symmetry axis of the article flexible, longitudinally extending flaps (9, 10' 9', 10'; 28, 29), each of which is connected to the inner casing sheet along a longitudinal edge and which extends from the connected longitudinal edge in toward a longitudinal symmetry axis of the article. The flaps (9, 10; 9', 10'; 28, 29) are joined together in the crotch part (15; 15') of the article. The width of the flaps between the connected longitudinal edge and a free longitudinal edge of each flap is greatest in the crotch part (15; 15') and decreases progressively from the crotch part (15; 15') toward the respective front and rear parts (13, 14; 13', 14') whereby the flaps (9, 10; 9', 10'; 28, 29) taper toward the respective front and rear parts (13, 14; 13', 14') from a place at which the flaps are connected together such that adjacent free longitudinal edges of the flaps approach each other most closely at that place and diverge from each other longitudinally of the adjacent free longitudinal edges in directions away from that place when the absorbent article is flattened.

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