The proverbial ungentlemanliness of the onslaught of a "battleship" punch upon a debutante at her first dance on board is nothing to the "assault from ambush" of orange wine upon the unwary stranger who dallies overlong above its cup.
With what keen pleasure he was able to buy Graham a seat on the Stock Exchange, bring Belle out as a debutante and send his little Ethel to the best possible school.
Now and then Emily cast a puzzled glance across at Joan, and the debutante on his other side had long since been reduced to "Oh, really?
Let the would-be debutante but supply herself with presentable dancing frocks and slippers, and Louisville will do the rest.
In fact, she was shortly invited to become a Jabberwock herself, having, without quite realizing why, been promoted from the rank of mere debutante to that of Interesting Person.
Now that they had nodebutante daughter in prospect, their names figured leas prominently in the social column.
He sat opposite her, between Emily and a debutante of the type that makes conversation an act of supererogation, and she was able without seeming to do so to keep her protege under a watchful eye.
Gailhard, refused my application, claiming that I was a debutante and could not expect an initial performance at the Grand Opera despite my ability and musical attainments.
Then it was that I became aware that it was not only because I was a debutante that I had been denied.
The first performance of a debutante at the Grand Opera is a great ordeal, and it is easy to imagine that the strain upon a young singer might deprive her of her natural powers of expression.
Frau Kleist was the Court dancing-mistress, whose fastidious judgment had to be satisfied by any young debutante or officer before they presumed to dance before Royalty at the State balls.
And not onedebutante in ten out of a winter ever gets to go!
Then he added, half to himself, "It's a regular slaughter of the innocents whenever Grid Bennet goes to a debutante party.
He found her more frank and sensible than American girls, whose debutante conventionalities and mannerisms bored and irritated him.
It's always gay and pleasant having a beautiful debutante in one's house.
He had come to this debutante ball just for the opportunity of seeing her.
It served, nevertheless, admirably with the men of all ages who flocked about her as if, indeed, she were a debutante once more.
Ah," Wandel answered, "but the butterfly can touch with its wings the beautiful Sylvia Planter, and out of its eyes can watch her debutante frivolities.
Not more than one debutantein ten is; Emily was one of the nine.
But the debutante and her mother immediately lost their heads at this point, called on the Saunders, gushed at Ella and Emily, and tried to lure Kenneth into coming to little home dinners or small theater parties.
He would bite an Ear-Ring off of a Debutante or blow open a Family Vault to unscrew the Handles from the Casket containing Father.
American young men will never allow a debutante to suffer.
To dance with an American debutante requires skill.
The Debutante lifted her big blue eyes a little towards the ceiling, with the upward glance that stands for innocence.
Ma Pettengill, arrayed in Sabbath bravery of apparel, as of a debutante at a summer hotel where the rates are exorbitant, instantly laid by her own knitting and questioned him soothingly.
I suppose it was all you could expect from a borndebutante that had been brought up to be nice to college boys on a moonlit porch, allowing them to put another sofa pillow back of her, and wearing their class pins, and so forth.
I admire her myself, more than any debutante I ever saw.
Just think, Anthony, that it is a mere debutante of a house with its ball-book all unfilled.
Mrs. Prescott had a habit of speaking to Alma as if she were a petted debutante of nineteen, instead of just a pretty, care-free youngster of sixteen.
Everyone knows that a Debutante only has one year nowadays, and if she doesn't go off in that year she's swept away by the flood of new Girls the next fall.
The greatest mistake the debutante can make is to treat with carelessness and lack of respect the matrons, young or old, to whom she is introduced.
The debutante usually wears white on the occasion of her introduction to society.
If a debutante is to be presented her card may or may not be, but usually is, enclosed with the invitation.
At afternoon teas, receptions and "At Homes" the visitor leaves a card for the hostess on the tray in the hall, and one for the guest of honor, or the debutanteif one is being introduced.
The debutante dresses in white at her "coming-out party," as a rule; white being supposed to typify her virginal attitude in the social realm.
Sometimes the youngdebutante has several of her chums receiving with her for the first half hour.
The debutante who wears many jewels displays poor taste.
When a debutante daughter is to be introduced to society, the mother plans an elaborate afternoon tea (and they can certainly be elaborate!
Dark colors are rarely worn and the debutante herself should be a fairy dream in a lovely creation of silk, georgette, crepe-de-thane, or something else equally girlish and appropriate.
The debutante has her first partner selected for her by her mother.
The father of the debutante may receive with his wife, but his duty is more to see that all the women have partners, and that the chaperons are taken into supper.
The name of the young debutante may be included if it is so desired, although it is not essential.
If the tea is given for a debutanteit may be a very festive occasion and /decollete/ gowns may be worn.
Her mother should select in advance the man who is to have the pleasure of the first dance with the debutante at her debut.
But at a large ball it is necessary to invite the mother as well as the daughters, and the chaperone as well as the debutante under her care.
For an "At Home" debut, the least formal of all these entertainments, the name of the debutante is engraved below that of her mother.
A good order is for the mother to stand nearest the door, the debutante next, and the father last.
The girls standing up with the debutante after the first hour are free to dance and enjoy themselves as they please without standing in line again.
The debutante may receive flowers from intimate friends only.
Friends should send flowers to a debutante at a formal tea given in her honor.
The cards of a debutante may be sent by mail or messenger.
A debutante should not make any formal visits alone the first year, and should not receive men visitors unless her chaperone is present.
When making her debut, the debutante should stand beside her mother in the drawing-room, near the door, and be introduced by her.
If well acquainted with the family, a man may send flowers to a debutante at the time of her first debut.
The debutante shakes hands with each one introduced to her.
When calling upon a debutante a man should leave cards for her mother, whether the entertainment was attended or not.
She regretted not having a debutante daughter, as she well knew that society was one thing she could do, but since that was to be denied her, she would be the last person in the world to make herself disagreeable over her disappointment.
With the scarcity of beaux only a girl who was all animation had any show of having a good time in her debutante year.
He was the Beau Brummel of Richmond and in some unaccountable way had become the dictator of society, that is of the debutante society.
I made every german and that is something many a rich debutante can't say for herself.
If the debutante blushed, they laughed at her for her innocence; if she did not, she was laughed at for being too knowing.
Since her return and during the time that she was a debutante and every newspaper in the country knelt at her feet I have met her perhaps a dozen times--the opera, the horse show, the races, and so on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debutante" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
