But that would have taken too long: the First Consul was impatient to pay his addresses and, admitting the weakness artistes have for flattery, the débutante was probably in no less hurry to receive them.
An oath was needed to induce the débutante to leave the hôtel du Pérou.
Nothing daunted, the débutante turned to a bored, middle-aged man next to her.
A prominent New York débutante recently ordered "four seats on the aisle" at the theater.
William is as nervous about what the papers will say as a young débutante on the stage.
But the retreat of the charming débutante was not discovered.
Write a note of congratulation to a débutante announcing her engagement.
In recent years, there has developed a pleasant custom by which the débutante invites a number of her young friends to join her in receiving the other guests.
And the débutante who is curious for all the experiences her new liberty makes possible takes it for granted that an amorous trifling is the ordinary incident to masculine attention.
Occasionally luck gives me a débutante for a partner when I go out to dinner.
He was vexed with her for having retained a débutante figure.
The costume of a débutante at her first ball is usually white.
At a débutante party the mother stands nearest the drawing-room door, the daughter next her, and the father beyond.
As American schoolgirls often have a card with the prefix "Miss," the débutante may use this among her girl friends.
In New York in some circles the débutante is not given a separate card until she has been in society a year.
Oh, he's only a confirmed débutante chaser; a sort of social measles.
The card of the young dbutante is sometimes (although not always) enclosed.
Everything being ready, the débutante lies down and is covered over with a sheet, and incense is burnt, the sacrificial rice sprinkled, and the invocation of the spirit is chanted by a woman to the accompaniment of the tambourines.
Particularly is it desirable that the débutante should become acquainted with the older members of the society in which she moves.
In many cities the custom is for the family of the débutante and also for the friends of the family to give some entertainment in her honor.
It is said that a number of years ago when telephones were a luxury instead of being, as now, a necessity, in southern cities, the advent of the débutante in a house meant always the addition of a name to the telephone directory.
As a bride wishes it to seem that she has always been married, so a débutante likes to present the appearance of thorough familiarity with the ground upon which she has just arrived.
I was a débutante that winter, and we were rehearsing some theatricals for charity which I had to go through with.
The throng ebbed, renewed, passed from room to room, to return again for a final look at the lovely débutante and a final word with her no less attractive mother.
Inwardly he was fretting for their appearance--his débutante and Mme.
She demanded so little that he liked her, for since a lamentable affair with a débutante the preceding summer, when he had discovered that after half a dozen kisses a proposal was expected, he had been wary of girls of his own class.
Third, and gaining in popularity, is a small dance, which presents the débutante to the younger set and a few of her mother's intimate friends.
After supper the débutante has no duties and is free to enjoy herself.
But even in moderate households it is seldom practical for a débutante and her mother to share a maid--at least during the height of the season.
Each arriving guest always shakes hands with the débutante as well as with the hostess, and if there is a queue of people coming at the same time, there is no need of saying anything beyond "How do you do?
At all coming-out parties, the débutante invites a few of her best girl friends to receive with her.
Also it often happens that the entire list sent in by a member has already been included, and not wanting to use her tickets, she gives them to another member who may have a débutante daughter and therefore be in need of extra ones.
It is customary in most cities to send a débutante a bouquet at her "coming out" party.
Each ticket sent a débutante is accompanied by a visiting card on which is written: "Be in the lobby of the Comedy Theater at 8.
A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the débutante Craig girls--and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
And they go about being so conspicuously brave that any débutante can tell what hurts them.
Goldwin Leathersham seemed to be acting as proxy for some débutante also, for he seemed to feel pretty bobbish, but Warble was only slightly interested in the whole matter.
The Robbie Wallings had come to town and opened their house, and the time drew near for the wonderful débutante dance at which Alice was to be formally presented to Society.
Hermon gave a low chuckle of enjoyment, and continued to chuckle to himself until she was lost to sight and his hostess was introducing some charming débutante to him.
I invited Polly the Fluff for you--she is a débutante and such a coo-child that she'll just suit a poet.
Why, just yesterday, while I was writing up the Farrell débutante tea with the devil waiting at my elbows for copy and the composing room in a stew, he called me twice over the wire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "butante" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
