Debutante

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  D'ebutant \D['e]`bu`tant"\, n.; fem. D'ebutante
  \D['e]`bu`tante"\ [F., p. pr. of d['e]buter to have the first
     throw, to make one's d['e]but. See {D['e]but}.]
     A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the
     public.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  D'ebutante \D['e]`bu`tante"\, fem. n.
     A young woman making her first appearance in society,
     especially one who is one of the honorees at a debutante
     cotillion. See {cotillion}[4].
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  debutante
       n : a young woman making her debut into society [syn: {deb}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "debutante":
     Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman,
     dandy, deb, fashion plate, fashionable, fop, man-about-town,
     mondain, mondaine, socialite, subdeb, subdebutante, swinger,
     taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter