Debrett

/ (dəˈbrɛt) /


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

Origin of Debrett

1
C19: after J. Debrett (c. 1750–1822), London publisher who first issued it

Words Nearby Debrett

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How to use Debrett in a sentence

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

    The Riddle of the Purple Emperor | Mary E. Hanshew and Thomas W. Hanshew
  • It was astonishing how "well posted," to use the Transatlantic idiom, the papers were in Burke and Debrett.

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

    The Vanity Girl | Compton Mackenzie
  • She hurriedly looked up in Debrett and Who's Who all the other actresses who had married into the peerage.

    The Vanity Girl | Compton Mackenzie
  • The list of "fashionables" he handed to the reporters resembled an extract from the pages of Messrs. Burke and Debrett.

    The Magnificent Montez | Horace Wyndham