débutante

See also: debutante and debûtante

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

débutante (plural débutantes)

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

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French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /de.by.tɑ̃t/
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Noun

débutante f (plural débutantes)

  1. a debutante
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