debutantes

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 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 tax benefit will also extend to gambling dealers, clowns, DJs, entertainers, content creators, maids, electricians, plumbers, babysitters, drivers and more.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And the justices will consider later this term whether states can prevent transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the other Wildemere Beach girls—girls from big blue-collar families whose parents partied on the weekends—had formed a tighter clique that Catherine never would fit into.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • According to Castro, nuns, who were supposed to be professional virgins—no Duke of Monmouth for them—could try bloodletting or enemas for a cure.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Predictably, the hubbub surrounding the photo was eventually framed as a war between uptight virgins and godless heathens, with a quieter contingent astounded only by the fact that this kind of marketing could still be so effective.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • This is a 1,000 year old tradition where two maidens are chosen to be slaughtered as repentance to one of their goddesses.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Prized 2-year-olds trained by Bob Baffert ran an impressive 1-2 in their debuts in Sunday’s opening race, a six-furlong test for maidens.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Debutantes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debutantes. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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