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debutante noun

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Definition

a rich young woman who, especially in the past in Britain, went to a number of social events as a way of being introduced to other young people of high social rank
a debutantes' ball

(Definition of debutante noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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