() 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 .
Rosebud
Definition:
(n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.
Example Sentences:
(1) The serosurvey was performed shortly after a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1983-84, and immediately before a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Rosebud reservation in 1985-86.
(2) In a recent cartoon he criticised the regime's offers of reforms, with a picture of an official with rosebuds in his speech bubble – and a turd in his head.
(3) Significantly higher levels of both pregnancy and non-pregnancy serum copper were observed in the Rosebud population compared to that in southeastern South Dakota, possibly due to the significantly higher level of copper in the Rosebud water.
(4) (1965), an interesting comedy that never lived up to all its starry contributors; How to Steal a Million (1966), a dud with Audrey Hepburn – viewers asked which star was thinner and more wide-eyed; The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – as several angels – for John Huston; The Night of the Generals (1967); Great Catherine (1968); Murphy's War (1971); Under Milk Wood (1972) – with Burton and Taylor; Man of La Mancha (1972); Rosebud (1975); Man Friday (1975).
(5) There is no one-armed, patched and restuffed Rosebud burning in the fires of memory.
(6) The distribution of the serum levels of selenium, zinc, and copper in human pregnancy at various gestational ages were determined from two ethnically and geographically different populations (Rosebud Indian Reservation and southeastern South Dakota) of 410 normal subjects.
(7) The surprisingly high anti-HAV seroprevalence among young children at Rosebud, where clinical hepatitis A had been virtually absent in the previous seven years, indicates that high-grade silent transmission was taking place during the interepidemic period.
(8) In the final scenes of Citizen Kane, the protagonist’s childhood sledge, “Rosebud”, is thrown on a fire and lost.
(9) Seropositivity rose rapidly with age; by age 40, more than 90 percent of persons at both Pine Ridge and Rosebud were anti-HAV positive.
(10) Sometimes it’s nice to reflect Mostly b) Diagnosis: nostalgish Mostly c) What’s ‘Rosebud’?
(11) The overall seroprevalence for antibodies to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) was 76.2 percent (Pine Ridge reservation 80.5 percent, Rosebud reservation 72.0 percent, relative risk = 1.12, 95 percent confidence interval = 1.01, 1.24).
(12) When large, such adenopathies, which surround the portal vein, hepatic artery, and bile duct, give rise to a particular ultrasound pattern: the "rosebud pattern."
(13) Most important among the differences are the conformation of the baseplate (a closed rosebud) and the positioning of the tail fibers (retracted).
(14) And on the other is the elections clerk for Rosebud County, Geraldine Custer, whose husband is a direct descendant of the ill-fated general.
(15) For age groups 0 to 4 years, 54.2 percent and 36.1 percent of children were seropositive at Pine Ridge and Rosebud, respectively.
(16) In June 1985 a population-based serosurvey for viral hepatitis involving 120 households was conducted at the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Indian reservations in South Dakota.
(17) She has front teeth to make you stare – long and gappy – and a rosebud mouth painted something arresting.
(18) Aedes vexans was the most abundant species except on the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Winnebago and Yankton Sioux reservations in which Culex tarsalis predominated and for the Sac-n-Fox where Aedes trivittatus occurred with the greatest frequency.