How To Use Debutante In A Sentence
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In 1961, Mimi Alford, the latest crotch level inductee into the History Hall of Fame, was a "slender, golden-haired 19-year-old debutante whose finishing school polish and blueblood connections" landed her a summer job in the White House Press Office.
Myra Chanin: Mimi Alford's Hymen Sacrificed on the Altar of History
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But since he is a millworker, and she a debutante, Allie's parents disapprove and eventually they are separated when the Nelsons return to the city, and Allie to college.
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The debutantes all looked splendid, the meal and music were excellent and a great night was had by all.
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County debutante Linda Harrison advanced her W50 triple jump best to 6. 09m for 3rd place.
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And this poor girl with the designful eyes on him was the oldest living debutante.
Ma Pettengill
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In the United States, a debutante ball is also sometimes called a cotillion or a coming-out party.
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They single out a debutante, Cecile de Volange, new to society and under the ever-watchful eye of her mother, and Hortense de Tourvel, a settled lady of a certain age.
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In October 1886, at Tuxedo Park's Autumn Ball, an annual gala honoring debutantes, Griswold and a few of his friends emerged in tailless dress coats and scarlet satin vests.
Off With Their Coattails
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Coming-out parties celebrate more than debutantes.
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They spent their last evening in New York before the second trial at a party given by Cornelia Guest, the city’s most highly publicized postdebutante, whose mother, C.Z. Guest, the noted horsewoman, gardener, and socialite, was prepared to give testimony in von Bülow’s behalf at the trial and corroborate the allegations of the late Truman Capote and others that Sunny von Bülow was a drug addict and a drunk.
Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow
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Reno is still interested in Billy romantically but Billy explains to her that he is in love with Hope Harcourt, an American debutante.
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She quickly produced a series of light, frothy peeks into high society that proved successful with the public – The Vicissitudes of Evangeline, a series of vignettes detailing a young debutante’s observations of the love affairs of high society, which scandalized the reading public not by its subject, but by a scene where Evangeline is described as becoming in her lingerie!
Elinor Glyn and “Three Weeks” | Edwardian Promenade
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The television rights will be auctioned off and already, there is speculation about the victor taking on another recent ring debutante, 23-year-old Freeda George Foreman.
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Though the light that the lone lamp provided was dim, the debutantes could all see that the girl who kept Lord William and Mr. Phineas company was ravishing, with jet black hair and magnolia skin.
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This is from a new book by a then-19 year old White House intern:In the summer of 1962, Alford was a slender, golden-haired 19-year-old debutante whose finishing-school polish and blueblood connections had landed her a job in the White House press office.
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Finally, however, after much worry and angst, it was the night of the Debutante Ball.
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All the debutantes were just incredible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fashion is a relative word when you're eight - at least it was 20 years ago - but, even then, a dark salmon cardigan ain't gonna make any young debutante the belle of the ball.
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The performance of the Russian debutante Irina Chashchina was awaited with huge interest.
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After all, you don't miss your debutante ball, especially when your family is hosting it.
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Joyce Anstruther, as she then was, ‘came out’ as a debutante into the society marriage market.
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The year is 1949 and Lisa Norton plays Miriam, a 19-year-old debutante who has just run away from her parents.
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As global television is today demonstrating to the world in stark reality, the "Tea Party" is to revolution what a debutante cotillion is to the Vietnam War.
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Her roommate is a slightly airheaded debutante named Glinda.
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The dashing young men that were invited to the ball by debutantes from St Brigid's secondary school got more than they bargained for when they turned up to collect their dates for the evening.
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But at which of the houses she had known as a debutante, or even before that, had he worked?
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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She was then regarded as debutante with no great beauty to flaunt but who, in the words of a fellow deb, ‘could really turn on the headlights’ when needed.
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As a lieutenant in the Life Guards, he wed his first wife Susan, an 18-year-old debutante, in 1956.
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It was the morning of the debutante ball and I was giving Ryan last minute dance lessons.
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My darling daughter, Beatrix herself had been one of the most successful debutantes in her younger years, and she saw no reason as to why her daughter should not follow in her path.
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Elaine Webb never got the chance to be a debutante when she was a teenager, so she's decided to do it 40 years later.
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Irina Nikulchina, considered a debutante in biathlon, snatched the bronze after remarkable sprint and shooting in the 10 km pursuit.
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Like a beautiful debutante Polmayne stands on the threshold of a -- er, ``golden' age.
THE MAIN CAGES
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A democratic version of the debutante ball, the prom was originally intended to accustom working-class kids to the manners and values of the middle class.
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In his youth, he was an international playboy winning the heart of many debutantes, including Fiona Campbell-Walker, a top model who married one of the richest men in Europe, Baron Thyssen.
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This first garden party without Laura is a political fundraiser hostessed by Dr. Turner—with an able helping hand from her First Lady, Niecy, who is wearing a beautiful princess dress and an eager debutante smile.
You Know Where to Find Me
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Soon after the release of New York, Yash Raj has Ranbir romancing 20-year-old debutante Shazahn Padamsee in Rocket Singh: Salesman of the year and Parmeet Sethi's untitled directorial venture will see Shahid with Anushka Sharma.
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The debutante ball is a school function and students either go with formal dates or with an informal group of friends.
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Clair is a debutante artist that falls in love with him throughout their 30+ year relationship.
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I just wanted to tell you that you'll be having a debutante ball on your birthday!
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Vivien Leigh, he wrote, approached the role of Cleopatra "with the daintiness of a debutante called upon to dismember a stag.
A challenging role for a complex thespian
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If you can't laugh at Anthony van Dyck's boozed-up cavaliers, Thomas Gainsborough's cadaverous, blue-faced debutantes or Damien Hirst's 13-foot shark in a few thousand gallons of formaldehyde, you're really missing out on some great fun.
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In 1839 she came out in society as a debutante, with the Nightingales taking an entire floor of the Carlton Hotel in London's Regent Street to mark the event.
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In contrast to the dazzling young debutante, Princess Mary looked hopelessly plain despite wearing a light green dress.
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Recalling it, she looked as happy as she did in one of the pictures she kept on her mantelpiece, the one where she stands next to her father as a debutante.
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Did her voice really sound that much like a debutante?
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First Kipps falls for upper-crust debutante Helen Washington.
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He's the kind of a guy who would put a lampshade on his head and dance the fandango if he thought it would make one person smile, and it takes a similar kind of Texas chutzpah to get up on the stage at the Carlyle, in front of debutantes and dowagers sporting enough jewelry to exceed the gross national product of Madagascar, and sing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays
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Jones became obsessed with regality, parading around Paris in dress uniform, taking audiences with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and courting French debutantes.
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Cherie Burns has written a bracing, sex-and-shopping account of that life, suggesting that haute couture provided a cloistered young debutante a way to "lay claim to herself" and become a sophisticated socialite.
She Wore It Well
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Tea parties were Irene's favorite activity, and Elisa loved to pretend she was a high society debutante (which she would be in a matter of years but the girl was impatient).
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Cher had heard that the debutante wasn't going to work in the laundry no more.
INSIDERS
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But the council's acting chief executive Kim Corrie doesn't think being a debutante has gone out of fashion, and she's hopeful there'll be enough women for a ball next year.
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In 1990, Jamie kicked the pro-am craze into full gear by co-producing ‘Dirty Debutantes’ with Ed Powers.
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Matrons in gem-hued gowns were clucking over the other debutantes.
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All the debutantes were just incredible.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the life of a Victorian debutante, there were probably few experiences more exciting than her presentation to the Queen at Court.
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About a quarter of a million people line the banks of the Thames and the race is part of the social season, attended by debutantes and society figures with strict entry and dress codes for some parts of the riverbank.
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Championship debutante, Linda Connolly, dealt admirably with all situations between the Mayo uprights to boost her confidence for future clashes.
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is padded like an insecure debutante: sales pitches for Oxford Ancestors, descriptions of the scenery of the Scottish isles, praise for the fine organization of British blood drives, reminiscences of professional colleagues, accounts of local folklore, even a recommendation for a particularly fine ice cream parlor in Lampeter, Wales.
Britain
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Red has taken to an impeccably groomed debutante poodle from town.
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A very good crowd, a treble for local trainer Willie Mullins and a satisfactory run by old Danoli were the highlights on a day which also saw a fine performance from debutante Get It Done in the concluding bumper.
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Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt have always come across as cowgirl sophisticates equally comfortable at a hoedown as they would be at a debutante ball.
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We met only once, at that debutante cotillion.
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Without going into too much detail, Mr. Skeffington is the story of an orphaned but popular young New York debutante and her morose brother, who squanders their fortune.
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In book 1, The Rest Falls Away, vampires have always lived among them, quietly attacking unsuspecting debutantes and dandified lords as well as hackney drivers and Bond Street milliners.
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Now she helps to organise the biannual International Debutante Ball, which donates money to several causes, including servicemen's charities.