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Debrett

British  
/ dəˈbrɛt /

noun

  1. In full: Debrett's Peerage.  a list of the British aristocracy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Debrett

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

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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

His own opinion about the intentions of Providence was that they had been frustrated—by Debrett chiefly.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

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