débutante

See also: debutante and debûtante

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French débutante, feminine form of débutant.[1]

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Noun

débutante (plural débutantes)

  1. A female who débuts.
    • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
      A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

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References

  1. 1 2 “débutant” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

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