Synonyms for debutante

Grammar : Noun

Spell : deb-yoo-tahnt, -tant

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛb yʊˌtɑnt, -ˌtænt

Définition of debutante

Origin : 1801, "female stage actress making her first public performance," from fem. of French debutant (q.v.). In reference to a young woman making her first appearance in society, from 1817.

noun young woman

Example sentences :

He could no more resist these things than a debutante in her first season.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

She's no debutante any more, you know; she's an 'old girl' in her fifth season.
Extract from : « Under the Country Sky » by Grace S. Richmond

And not one debutante in ten out of a winter ever gets to go!
Extract from : « The Heart of Arethusa » by Francis Barton Fox

Not more than one debutante in ten is; Emily was one of the nine.
Extract from : « Saturday's Child » by Kathleen Norris

But she acted so excellently, no one would have supposed her to be a debutante.
Extract from : « Frederic Chopin, v. 1 (of 2) » by Moritz Karasowski

I attended this first sitting with the thrill of a debutante going to a ball.
Extract from : « Caught by the Turks » by Francis Yeats-Brown

It beats the debutante slink, that came in with narrow skirts.
Extract from : « The Girls of Central High on the Stage » by Gertrude W. Morrison

And, incongruous as it may sound, Clodagh's was the position of the debutante.
Extract from : « The Gambler » by Katherine Cecil Thurston

Then it was that I became aware that it was not only because I was a debutante that I had been denied.
Extract from : « Great Singers on the Art of Singing » by James Francis Cooke

On the appearance of a debutante, they say, the first question in Boston is, "Is she clever?"
Extract from : « Border and Bastille » by George A. Lawrence

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