debutante
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During her winter break, she spent a week in Manhattan preparing for two débutante balls, at the Waldorf-Astoria and at the Plaza Hotel.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019
Actually, like Tom Townsend, the brainy Princeton freshman in “Metropolitan,” Stillman’s 1990 movie about young preppies navigating Manhattan’s débutante scene, he used to seriously dislike her.
From The New Yorker • May 19, 2016
Hochschild can’t resist quoting liberally from the memoir of Virginia Cowles, a reporter for the Hearst newspapers and a former débutante said to look like Lauren Bacall.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2016
She recovered, raised a condemnatory eyebrow at débutante balls—her right eyebrow still does a lot of critical work for her—and vowed to escape.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
He had come to this débutante ball just for the opportunity of seeing her.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
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