Debrett

/ dəˈbrɛt /

noun

1. a list of the British aristocracy In fullDebrett's Peerage

Word History and Origins

Origin of Debrett¹

C19: after J. Debrett (c. 1750–1822), London publisher who first issued it

Example Sentences

I don't profess to be a walking Debrett, but I fancy the name recalls some strange memory.

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It was astonishing how "well posted," to use the Transatlantic idiom, the papers were in Burke and Debrett.

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There was a trenchant symbolism, too, in massacring a flea with Debrett; no other volume would have been heavy enough.

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She hurriedly looked up in Debrett and Who's Who all the other actresses who had married into the peerage.

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The list of "fashionables" he handed to the reporters resembled an extract from the pages of Messrs. Burke and Debrett.

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