debutante

Noun

Meaning

A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

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Your debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want. Bob Dylan

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. Wentworth Miller

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family. Amy Carter

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. Gene Tierney

Although there are paw marks of a debutante whose skills still require some honing in this collection—especially in the craft itself—there is no doubt that the poetic quality compensates for the sometimes-overemphasized artifice. Source: Internet

Born between 1904 and 1920, the sisters grew up imbibing the etiquette of debutante balls and the personal consequences of global upheaval; their friends were the fey Bright Young Things, “sublimely clever aesthetes”; their enemies were legion. Source: Internet

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