debutante

Example Sentences

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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

If mid-19th-century America had been a debutante ball, Lee, who graduated from the U.S.

From Washington Post

But a greater mix of sectors were among stock market debutantes.

From Reuters

“Dowagers and debutantes, sailors and their gals . . . mingled with thousands of hepcats,” the Providence Journal noted.

From Washington Post