(n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
(n.) A tune which regulates the dance.
(n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
(n.) A formal ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.
Debutante
Definition:
() A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(2) The coup of signing the former world footballer of the year follows the arrival of Spain’s David Villa as the first designated player for Orlando’s fellow MLS debutantes, New York City FC, last month.
(3) Your new novel, Winter Games , tells the story of a debutante in 1930s Munich and was partly based on the experiences of your grandmother.
(4) There are growing signs, however, that float fatigue has set in after several market debutantes tumbled in value.
(5) I expected not to hear back from anybody but, in fact, once I invoked Williams' name, owners of country piles started flinging their ghosts at me as if they were their debutante daughters.
(6) She first met Andrew Parker Bowles at her “coming out” party as a debutante in 1965.
(7) David, a debutante, adventurer and lover of the Mediterranean sunshine, had an influence with her articles and books, describing dishes with aubergines, courgettes and other exotica that were all but unavailable in northern Europe in the 1950s and 60s.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) He would occasionally consort with debutantes and the whole triple-barrel moniker brigade, even though he found their chosen lifestyles utterly facile.
(10) Michael Gove, the Tory chief whip, described her as the “most impressive debutante” in the debate, before going on to warn of the perils of a Labour-SNP vote.
(11) And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that?
(12) Forty years ago, the Queen wore miniskirts, debutantes were It girls, and teenagers shopped at Jaeger.
(13) Downton Abbey was last seen on British screens on Christmas Day, when a special episode was broadcast showing the family visiting London for debutante Lady Rose's coming out.
(14) The small-press surprises and unknown debutantes that have been a fixture of recent years are notably absent – though notable too is the prize's first crowd-funded long-listee, eco-activist Paul Kingsnorth's Old English tale of resistance to the Norman invasion.
(15) She came out as a debutante in 1938 at a ball given by her doting father at the Mitfords' London house, and enjoyed the last real season before the second world war.
(16) The AA, which floated in June, priced its shares at 250p and, unlike other debutantes such as Saga and AO world whose shares have sunk below their offer price, closed last week at 291.5p.
(17) There is another high-profile debutante in the women's race, as reigning Olympic and world 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba runs her first marathon.
(18) After leaving Queen’s Gate school with a single O-level in kennel hygiene, she went on to become the most sought-after debutante of her generation.
(19) She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
(20) In the interwar period, gin would reach the height of sophistication when it was sloshed about with flair by debutantes and bright young things .