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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

If I were to give a list of "among those present" it would exhaust pages of "Debrett" and "Who's Who", to say nothing of my own pages.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren

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