Debrett
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Debrett
C19: after J. Debrett (c. 1750–1822), London publisher who first issued it
Example Sentences
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Luckily, only a few minutes into the interview, the singer born Tahliah Debrett Barnett spotted a familiar matcha spot coming up on her route.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
In the same video, the Cheltenham-born performer, real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett, suggests this isn't the only problem she's had with her production team on her Eusexua tour.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
Twigs grew up in Cheltenham as Tahliah Debrett Barnett, the only child of an English-Spanish single mother from Birmingham, who’d moved out to the countryside to give her daughter a better life.
From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2019
It’s ironic that the English performer Tahliah Debrett Barnett is in the news because she’s settling down.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2015
The directing geniuses of many of the suspect ventures of to-day in London are often the possessors of names that are writ rubric in the pages of Debrett and Burke.
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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