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- noun Plural form of
debutante .
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Examples
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Often Amory met wives whom he had known as debutantes, and looking intently at them imagined that he found something in their faces which said:
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"Going to church to fellowship with the debutantes was the most exciting activity in the program.
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The others range from rock stars to philanthropists to debutantes to supermodels.
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The debutantes of the season were presented at the initial receptions by their mothers in gowns with deep decolletage and train of a certain length according to their rank.
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And the often gruesome subplot is properly thrilling, complete with smooth-shouldered debutantes, trilbys lurking in the shadows and a banger of an opening.
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Although these young ladies were being trained to become debutantes, they were also encouraged to believe in themselves as individuals with the right to have opinions and to speak up for them.
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There could have been neo-jazz babies, flappers, debutantes, feminists, disco queens, Hollywood sirens, Nouvelle Society matrons and Playboy bunnies.
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Even stricter were the lives of debutantes in Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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This makes it the first Malaysian company seeking a listing to fall victim to market volatility, even as recent debutantes have surged on their first day of trading.
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Girls typically made their debuts at seventeen or eighteen; sixteen year old debutantes were extremely rare.
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