débutante
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French débutante, feminine form of débutant.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /deɪb(j)utɑnt/
- see also débutant#Pronunciation
Noun[edit]
débutante (plural débutantes)
- A female who débuts.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- 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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Noun[edit]
débutante f (plural débutantes)
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