débutante

 

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• debutante, debûtante

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /deɪb(j)utɑnt/
• see also débutant#Pronunciation

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.

• débutant

• unabetted

• IPA^(key): /de.by.tɑ̃t/

• Audio:

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débutante f (plural débutantes)

1. a debutante