débutante

See also: debutante and debûtante

English

Alternative forms

debutante, debûtante

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /debytɑ̃t/[1]
see also débutant#Pronunciation

Noun

débutante (plural débutantes)

A female who débuts.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
  
  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.

Coordinate terms

débutant

Related terms

début

débutant (masculine form)

References

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

Anagrams

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