Thesaurus results for DEBUTANTES

debutantes

noun

plural of debutante

as in maids

a young upper-class woman who has begun going to special parties where she will meet and be seen by other people from the upper class The invitation-only event is a prized ticket for the city's debutantes.

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Recent Examples of debutantes The building was popular with debutantes. —

Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026 Like many other balls, the Opera Ball opens with a waltz performed by 160 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed young couples, who are referred to as debutantes. —

Valeriya Safronova, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026 Each year, noteworthy families flock to the famed Hotel Shangri-La in Paris for a formal celebration of the debutantes, who traditionally work with designers to dream up bespoke haute couture gowns. —

Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025 Even at some of the dressiest Mardi Gras balls in the city, you’re guaranteed to find debutantes and knights alike gathered around a table full of Foosackly’s. —

Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025 The Mitford sisters, as debutantes, were expected to quietly marry into their class and fade into the woodwork. —

Mimi Pond, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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Noun

But the bar maids rallied together and eventually won their fight.

— Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026