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debutante

/deb-yoo-tahnt, -tant/US // ˈdɛb yʊˌtɑnt, -ˌtænt //UK // (ˈdɛbjʊˌtɑːnt, -ˌtænt) //

名媛,名媛淑女,名媛小姐,名媛贵族

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a young woman making a debut into society.

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Examples

  • No longer the debutante but the career girl — a bold but safe step forward.

  • Before his marriage to the Queen, Philip dated society beauty Osla Benning, a Canadian debutante, whom he met in 1939.

  • The novel, about a young debutante cavorting in New York City in the summer of 1945, was finally published in 2005.

  • It was a typical Southern upbringing complete with not one, but two debutante balls.

  • At first glance, Finke, a debutante from Manhattan, is a rarity in this wicked pantheon of secret-sharers.

  • She had been raised as a debutante, a beautiful, delicate orchid from Vancouver, Canada.

  • A happy chance made him meet Korolenko, who took a great interest in the "debutante" writer.

  • Meanwhile the party from the villa were seated in the great concert hall awaiting the appearance of the lovely American debutante.

  • Nothing will make me blue now that mother has given up making me be a debutante.

  • With the scarcity of beaux only a girl who was all animation had any show of having a good time in her debutante year.

  • It beats the debutante slink, that came in with narrow skirts.

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