débutante

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See also debutante, and debûtante

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Etymology [edit]

From French débutante, feminine form of débutant.[1]

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cf. débutant#Pronunciation

Noun [edit]

débutante (plural débutantes)

  1. A female who débuts.
    • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 3, The Younger Set[1]:
      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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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “débutant” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
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