DEBUTANTE
NOUNS, PERSON
1881 ► BUD OF PROMISE – a girl who is just ‘coming out’; a debutante → US
1889 ► BUD – a girl who is just ‘coming out’; a debutante → US
1917 ► DEB – a debutante → sl., orig. US
1917 ► DEBBIE → DEBBY – a debutante → sl., orig. US
1917 ► SUB-DEB – a girl who will soon come out as a debutante; hence, broadly, a girl in her mid-teens → sl., chiefly US
1942 ► DIZZY DEB – a giddy debutante → Amer. students’ sl. (Bk.)
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