debutante
Example Sentences
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The zombie apocalypse was our debutante ball, our bar mitzvah, our 18th birthday party.
From Washington Times
They wondered: How had their brilliant debutante changed after six years in Europe, hobnobbing with the likes of Virginia Woolf and others in the famous Bloomsbury Group?
From Washington Post
In 1952, the new queen still bore the duty of having aristocratic debutantes presented to her at court, a ritual step in taking their exalted places in a still very white and class-conscious society.
From Los Angeles Times
The dazzle of the floor displays inspires her to adopt an air of debutante frivolity.
From Los Angeles Times
“My friends at school think this is a debutante ball, but it’s not that at all,” she said, wrestling a white knee-high sock onto Cameron, who looked bored.
From New York Times
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